On 23 November 2016 at 14:37, Tianon Gravi <[email protected]> wrote: > I realized that a clean way to handle this would be some way to just > tell "apt-get install" to _not_ mark the packages as manually > installed -- if they're already marked, leave their markings alone, > otherwise mark them as auto (akin to Gentoo's "emerge --oneshot" or > what's possible with Alpine's "apk --virtual"). This way, new > packages could be installed willy nilly, and easily removed with > "apt-get autoremove". > > I can mimic this behavior currently by doing some dancing with > "apt-mark" before and after install, but it'd be really awesome if APT > itself had either a flag or a "-o" option for adjusting the package > marking behavior. > > If it seems like this is really a separate wishlist item (and not as > overlapping as I thought), I'm also happy to file a new wishlist issue > instead. :)
Looks like this is already essentially what's suggested over in #745769, but if I'm right in my hunch that the use cases are reasonably overlapping, the two could probably be combined (or marked fixed by the same feature addition). :) ♥, - Tianon 4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4
