Hi Christoph, > I know how it works, but that system alone is a bit limited, as it > works only for those situations where there is actually a dependency > expressed between the packages in question,... which in turn is however > by far not every case where I install a package because of another > package.
That is a good point. I am stumbling over it every now and then, too. > Well AFAIU, the flag means auto-installed, not do-auto-remove... and if > I have auto-removal turned of I see no reason why one should forbid the > other use case... My understanding of auto-installed is that the package was automatically installed. If I install a package manually, it is clearly not auto- installed. But as I am sometimes really annoyed by non-existing or too heavy package dependecies, I started to build meta-packages with the (in my point of view) "correct" dependencies. Since then, life became much easier. I do not have to work against the package management any more. Regards, Matthias