Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:04:45PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: Even worth, apt is one out of a very few priority reasons to use Debian, or? When I first used Debian, 20 years ago, apt(-get) was indeed one of the primary reasons to use Debian. But back then it did not have Recommends: nor

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 25 mai 20, 22:04:45, Marco Möller wrote: > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, and > right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in packages > do not become removed automatically. This behaviour is intended and controlled by the

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 23:55:02 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 25.05.20 23:24, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > It's OK. I understood your question the first time. > > > > The simple answer is that the '--no-install-recommends' option applies > > only to the current install command.

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Marco M??ller wrote: > So, no "undo" is in apt available, its database does not store sufficient > information for it. :-( This is what I see as a severe bug. There is no undo for apt. There is uninstall, and purge. Suppose you install Feeblix, which recommends libfoo, and Barganza, which

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Marco Möller
On 25.05.20 23:24, Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] It's OK. I understood your question the first time. The simple answer is that the '--no-install-recommends' option applies only to the current install command. The result of a subsequent remove command will depend on the state of the dependency

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 23:04:17 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 25.05.20 22:34, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit : > > > > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, > >

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Marco Möller
On 25.05.20 22:34, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit : If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in packages

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit : > > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, > > and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in > > packages do not become removed

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit : > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, > and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in > packages do not become removed automatically. The system is swelling > with no more wanted packages! > I

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-05-25 at 16:04, Marco Möller wrote: > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, > and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn > in packages do not become removed automatically. The system is > swelling with no more wanted packages! If

apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Marco Möller
If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in packages do not become removed automatically. The system is swelling with no more wanted packages! I hope I am simply missing the simple step how to return