Hi, Le 12/07/12 11:06, Gergely Nagy a écrit : > Lets consider another case! Suppose I have Install-Recommends turned on, > and install a theoretical meta package, that has half of its stuff in > recommends, because they're not strictly necessary, but merely enhance > the system. Lets suppose one of these enhancements include a tool I use > every once in a while, but not daily.
A later upgrade to your beloved meta-package could very well drop this dependency. If that's a tool that you know you want, I strongly suggest you mark it as manually installed. > As for why I wouldn't notice? Because I trust the system to do the right > thing, and I do automatic, unattended upgrades. Not an uncommon thing to > do, I believe. You should always check what your package manager wants to remove. In my experience, more often than not, aptitude tries to remove the full gnome metapackage because of a temporarily unavailable depends. Regards, thibaut. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ffea089.4090...@free.fr
