** Summary changed: - Recommended packages always installed + Recommended packages not automatically removed
** Description changed: Binary package hint: aptitude - Aptitude version 0.4.9 in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is installing always the recommended packages even when it is told not to do so. It is also not uninstalling them when it is told to do so. Suggested packages are not affected. - There is already a similar bug filed in Debian (bug nro.458189), which is even already patched in aptitude version 0.4.11. Here the reference for more details: + Aptitude version 0.4.9 in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (amd64) does not uninstall + recommended packages automatically when it is told to do so (e.g. + Preferences: 'Install recommended packages automatically' not checked; + 'Remove unused packages automatically' checked). Suggested packages are + not affected. Recommended packages are not automatically installed if + not asked for. + + How to reproduce: Uncheck in the preferences 'Install recommended + packages automatically' and check 'Remove unused packages + automatically'. Then mark one of the packages that e.g. ubuntu-standard + recommends and no other package depends on like e.g. appamor-utils as + automatically installed. It should be marked as to be removed + automatically, but does not. + + There is already a similar bug filed in Debian (bug nro.458189), which + is even already patched in aptitude version 0.4.11. Here the reference + for more details: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458189 - This bug is hindering setting up a leaner version of Ubuntu by the - method of uninstalling all only recommended (= not necessarily wanted) - packages. It also installs significantly more packages than necessary - leading to unnecessarily bigger Ubuntu installations wasting space on - small systems and causing additionnally more load to the download - servers. + This bug is hindering setting up a leaner version of Ubuntu on older + systems by the method of uninstalling all only recommended (= not + necessarily wanted) packages. Considering the criticism that 'the other operating system' has got for - being too fat, this bug is worth patching in an LTS verison. + being too fat, this bug is worth be removed from an LTS verison. Thanks for good work over the years! ** Description changed: Binary package hint: aptitude Aptitude version 0.4.9 in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (amd64) does not uninstall recommended packages automatically when it is told to do so (e.g. Preferences: 'Install recommended packages automatically' not checked; 'Remove unused packages automatically' checked). Suggested packages are not affected. Recommended packages are not automatically installed if - not asked for. + 'Install recommended packages automatically' is unchecked - as it should + be. How to reproduce: Uncheck in the preferences 'Install recommended packages automatically' and check 'Remove unused packages automatically'. Then mark one of the packages that e.g. ubuntu-standard recommends and no other package depends on like e.g. appamor-utils as automatically installed. It should be marked as to be removed automatically, but does not. There is already a similar bug filed in Debian (bug nro.458189), which is even already patched in aptitude version 0.4.11. Here the reference for more details: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458189 This bug is hindering setting up a leaner version of Ubuntu on older systems by the method of uninstalling all only recommended (= not necessarily wanted) packages. Considering the criticism that 'the other operating system' has got for being too fat, this bug is worth be removed from an LTS verison. Thanks for good work over the years! ** Description changed: Binary package hint: aptitude Aptitude version 0.4.9 in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (amd64) does not uninstall recommended packages automatically when it is told to do so (e.g. Preferences: 'Install recommended packages automatically' not checked; 'Remove unused packages automatically' checked). Suggested packages are not affected. Recommended packages are not automatically installed if 'Install recommended packages automatically' is unchecked - as it should be. How to reproduce: Uncheck in the preferences 'Install recommended packages automatically' and check 'Remove unused packages automatically'. Then mark one of the packages that e.g. ubuntu-standard recommends and no other package depends on like e.g. appamor-utils as automatically installed. It should be marked as to be removed automatically, but does not. There is already a similar bug filed in Debian (bug nro.458189), which is even already patched in aptitude version 0.4.11. Here the reference for more details: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458189 This bug is hindering setting up a leaner version of Ubuntu on older systems by the method of uninstalling all only recommended (= not necessarily wanted) packages. Considering the criticism that 'the other operating system' has got for - being too fat, this bug is worth be removed from an LTS verison. + being too fat, this bug is worth patched in an LTS verison. Thanks for good work over the years! -- Recommended packages not automatically removed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225715 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
