Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.0-3 Severity: wishlist Compared to plain apt, I think the nicest feature of aptitude is the handling of "automatically installed packages". I think it could be even improved a bit.
My idea is to determine automatically (from Depends: and Recommends:, and possibly Suggests:) if a package is automatically installed, just like it is now. However, I would like to have an option to manually add a dependency, which keeps a package automatically installed. For example, I don't want suggested packages to always be installed with a package, but in many cases I want some of them. What I currently have to do is to manually install them, which means they will not be deinstalled when I remove the package which suggests them. In some other cases there may not even be a suggests relation, and I might still consider it "automatically installed because of this package". So in short: I'd like each package to have the option of getting extra dependancies, manually specified by the user, which keep automatically installed packages from being removed. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.42.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-4 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2 2.0.16-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.0-3 English manual for aptitude, a ter -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
