On 15 April 2013 22:04, Mente Binária | Sérgio Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > But i guess you're right, i am proposing a half-baked solution to > a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. > > Still, the problem does exist: often, after installing a package (if i > don't perform that procedure of mine) i notice that many of the > automatically installed packages are marked as manually installed. > > For example (and i have just checked this on purpose), if i mark > the package "ubuntu-desktop" for installation, the packages > "at-spi2-core", "baobab" and some other dependencies (and > i do mean dependencies, not recommendations) are not marked > as auto-installed. Maybe i'm asking the wrong person, but > why is that? Are there different types/levels of dependency flags?
ubuntu-desktop is in section metapackages, which is configured as one of Never-MarkAuto-Sections (see /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove). The effect of this is that its dependencies are not marked auto-installed. At some point this was deemed preferable for metapackages, as otherwise users were complaining that removing such desktop package removed their whole desktop (imagine that? :-). If you dislike that you can modify the configuration on your own system to exclude metapackages from that config. If you see the problem with packages in other sections, please report to launchpad. > > By the way, i use Synaptic 0.75.9ubuntu1 on Xubuntu 12.04. > I believe that on such a system there still exist some problems with e.g. update-manager (via aptdaemon) that were only fixed quite recently. Otherwise, you should report any new issues to launchpad. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
