Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.2.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
It would be really nice to have a config option which tells
aptitude to never _clear_ the A flag of packages.
I mean even if there are no packages which depend/recommend/suggest/etc.
the respective package.
It may of course _set_ the flag.
The reason is that it's often handy to manually mark packages with
the A flag which are not depended/recommended/suggested/etc. but still
should have the A flag.
E.g. packages like m4-doc which are not depended/recommended/suggested/etc.
by m4 but I still like to have it at with most other packages, where
the main package suggests the doc package.
If I later decide to get rid of unneeded packages, I'll see m4-doc,
remember why I set the A flag, and decide to delete it (if I e.g. deleted
m4 in the meantime).
Thanks,
Chris.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.2.1 compiled at Apr 23 2010 14:34:56
Compiler: g++ 4.4.3
Compiled against:
apt version 4.8.0
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100313
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.8.0
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffc81b4000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8
(0x00007fa6f1189000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fa6f0f36000)
liblog4cxx.so.10 => /usr/lib/liblog4cxx.so.10 (0x00007fa6f0b48000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fa6f0943000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fa6f0677000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007fa6f03ff000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007fa6f00ac000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fa6efe95000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fa6efc04000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0
(0x00007fa6ef9e9000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa6ef7cd000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fa6ef4b8000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fa6ef236000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fa6ef020000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa6eeccb000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fa6eeac8000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa6ee8c4000)
libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0x00007fa6ee6a0000)
libdb-4.8.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.8.so (0x00007fa6ee326000)
libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0x00007fa6ee0ee000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fa6ededd000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007fa6edcd5000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa6f146c000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fa6edad0000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007fa6ed899000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007fa6ed671000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.9 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libboost-iostreams1.42. 1.42.0-3 Boost.Iostreams Library
ii libc6 2.10.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.30 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.3-9 GCC support library
ii liblog4cxx10 0.10.0-1.1 A logging library for C++
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23.1-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.3-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.19-1 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.30 maintenance tools for a Xapian ind
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.2.1-2 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii sensible-utils 0.0.4 Utilities for sensible alternative
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.9+b2 Enables support for package tags
ii tasksel 2.81 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
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