Contol: tags -1 + wontfix
Contol: close -1
Hi,
2012-12-08 04:49 Daniel Hartwig:
However, I would like to have an option to manually [install]
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.
If you manually install a suggested or recommended package, then mark it
as automatically-installed, it will remain installed. This depends on
the setting of APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant, which defaults to
true.
Where an actual relationship exists, the package should not be removed.
Nothing to see here either.
Agreed.
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.
Ok. Creating dependencies, that could be a useful extension.
There are lots of complications with this, for example what happens when
there are transitions, or conflicts between packages that you want
installed.
Implementing this feature in a way that plays nice with the rest of
apt/aptitude dependency resolution would be a very non-trivial effort.
Note that you can currently achieve this behaviour by creating local
metapackages. Such a package should depend on the main package of
interest, and either suggest or recommend the supplementary package.
Then you install the metapackage rather than the main package.
Local metapackages are /extremely/ useful to control an entire set of
applications of interest.[1]
Regards
[1]
<http://juliank.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/managing-system-package-selections-using-custom-meta-packages/>
(equivs is also easy to use for this)
There's also the possibility to use user-tags for this purpose, to
remind you why a package was installed by you, in the case that you
forget.
As it is, I don't think that this is going to be implemented any time
soon, and seeing that it was already open for a decade with no action, I
am going to close it as +wontfix.
Cheers.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
