On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 01:00:10PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Regid Ichira <regi...@nt1.in> writes:
>
> > I think noting depends on it, so I tried to remove it.
>
> > $ aptitude -sy remove ssh | grep -A2 REMOVED
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> > openssh-server{u} ssh
> > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> >
> > I do want openssh-server. Which doesn't strictly depend on ssh:
>
> > $ dpkg -p openssh-server | grep Depends | grep ' ssh'
> > $
>
> This is a standard aptitude thing with anything that was installed via a
> transitional package. You need to also run:
>
> aptitude unmarkauto openssh-server
Indeed I had to unmarkauto first.
My point is that my understanding of the description is that I could
remove the ssh package without unmarkauto. Which is why I think the
description should be modified. Am I the only one who might
understand the description this way?
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