Hi, Cameron Norman: > Is it not possible to tell if the sysvinit or upstart packages were > installed manually, and give a prompt then (in addition to something like > you described) ? > In theory, yes you could discover whether a package was installed explicity or has been pulled in as a dependency.
In practice, however, a "normal" Debian installation marks each and every package as being installed explicitly. This may be a deficiency which we want to do something about, but doesn't help right now. -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140513093118.gg13...@smurf.noris.de
