On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:28:12AM -0500, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> [Daniel Burrows]
> > you'd have to do something like "aptitude keep ~Rdepends:^gnome$".
>
> Too arcane. (:
>
> I've occasionally wanted a simple command in aptitude for "remove the
> auto flag from all the depends of this package" - not only for
> metapackages but also for dummy upgrade packages. Another way to look
> at it is a combined command for "remove this package but arrange not to
> remove anything it pulled in".
>
> This seems a bit better to me than unconditionally keeping dependencies
> of removed metapackages, as Bug #328441 suggests.
Just FYI, a shortcut in the visual interface would be to jump into the
depends screen and hit 'm' on the Depends tree (maybe also on Recommends).
Daniel
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