Hi, On 2011-06-13 12:56, David Kalnischkies wrote: > With my APT hat on i can tell you that APT (and friends) currently have no > option to forbid the removal of packages without other side-effects.
Please refrain from uncondionally stating something about "friends"' functionality. Libcupt actually has the possibility to prevent the removal of any package without any other side-effects, though it is not available from the console front-end. I don't think this will help the topic starter, but I don't want to see false statements unanswered. > What could be done is tweaking resolver scoring points, but honestly: > that is black-magic [...] it has side-effects for other packages with this > priority [...] For completeness, the points above are also applicable not for all "friends". -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613163415.GA4458@r500-debian