This is the designed, intended, and expected behaviour. We do not want
to enable a user to be able to accidentally remove large groups of
packages due to Depends: declarations.
The suggested behaviour is treated as a critical bug. See bug #1479207
"Never-MarkAuto-Sections not working correctly"
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1525193
Title:
removing a meta package should also remove its children
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
I just spent close to an hour helping a new user of ubuntu who kept
purging a meta package and did not tell me he had other packages
installed so what could have save us both lots of time would be to
remove child packages as well
in this example he was trying to purge mysql-server which was the meta package
what he had installed was mysql-server-5.5 and mysql-server-core-5.5
he never told me he had mysql-server-5.5 and mysql-server-core-5.5
which caused wasted time effort and energy trying to solve his problem
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: apt 1.1.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-2.11-generic 4.3.0
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 11 03:45:14 2015
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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