Public bug reported:
Background: I like aptitude, especially its ability to flag some
packages as "automatically installed" (as the result a dependencies).
Those packages are proposed for removal as soon as no "manually
installed" package depend on them.
So the first thing I do after installing a fresh Ubuntu is to
* install aptitude
* mark all packages as "automatically installed"
* (this is result in a proposal to remove all packages, which is logical)
* mark back a minimal number of packages as "manually installed" so that all
packages are kept
After a fresh install of raring ringtail (beta), here are the package
that need to be marked as "manually installled"
* grub-efi
* libreoffice-help-en-us
* linux-generic
* ubuntu-desktop
* ubuntu-minimal
* ubuntu-standard
* ubuntu-restricted-addons
* hyphen-en-us
* mythes-en-us
* openoffice.org-hyphenation
* language-pack-gnome-en
* thunderbird-locale-en-us
* flashplugin-installer
It seems to me that 1/ there are too much of them, and 2/ some of them
might even not need to be there (openoffice??).
Namely, why does ubuntu-desktop not depend on ubuntu-minimal and
ubuntu-standard?
Why does ubuntu-minimal not depend on linux-generic?
Why does flashplugin-installer not depend on ubuntu-restricted-addons?
Why does grub-efi not depend on other grub-related packages (which are already
"pulled" by another package)?
I understand that my use case is probably quite rare.
However, I think it would be a better design in general to have the initial
dependency graph cleaner, i.e. with a minimal number of sources.
** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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clean-up dependecy graph
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