Likewise, I had been using, as a workaround for years, before autoremove came on the scene, "apt-get build-dep Foo", abort, copy... for later, build what I need, and then paste into a "apt-get remove" commandline.
As an example of the reverse use-case: I regularly hobby with building .debs, and getting the build-dependancies right is very important to me. If I cannot be sure what extra stuff is installed, before I start building something, I cannot be sure the build-deps are set correctly. (Outside of playing with deborphan and such) This is what drove me to find this bug (as it was already submitted on bugs.debian.org) and patch it myself for my own use. I had no idea what other people thought or wanted, besides a few people in support of it pre-implementation. Obviously nobody said anything against it until it was implemented. -- Packages installed with apt-get build-dep should be set to auto-installed for easy removal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248268 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
