Hi! As you advised me, I've asked my question in debian-user list and it appears there is no mean yet of auto installing new packages with priority required, important or standard. But it's possible to auto remove packages that don't have one of these priorities anymore.
What do you think about modifying debootstrap to install the base system with the flag "automatically installed" and adding the APT::NeverAutoRemove ~prequired, ~pimportant, ~pstandard configuration directive in apt.conf? This way we can have packages that are no longer part of the base system automatically proposed for removal. For example the dselect package during the Lenny release process, the gcc-x.x-base or libdbx.x when new versions of these packages replaced it, sysklogd and klogd when they were replaced by rsyslog during Lenny release process, etc. Of course these packages wouldn't be proposed for removal if some other packages depends on it. Tell me if I tell big stupidity! But explain me why please. :-) Bye. Geek87 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
