Quoting Adam D. Barratt (2015-07-28 20:02:39) > On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 17:22 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Ole Streicher (2015-07-28 16:33:17) >>> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: >>>> Installation of a package from the 'metapackages' section does >>>> *not* mark its dependencies as automatically installed. >>> >>> Really? So, if someone would install a metapackage (for a test), and >>> then later uninstall it, its dependencies will remain on the system? >> >> That is my experience, yes. Seems specific to metapackages, so I >> suspect there is some APT wizardry going on, treating those >> specially. > > Specifically, the APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections configuration section > (in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove in a default install).
Quoting Paul Wise (2015-07-29 05:34:49) > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Also, even for non-metapackages, if some other package just _suggest_ >> the package you pull in via depends/recommends, they stick as well. > > That is controlled by the middle one of these apt config settings: > > APT::Install-Recommends "false"; > APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false"; > APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant "false"; Thanks, Adam and Paul! In case others like me prefer to explicitly mark wanted packages including kernels - as non-auto, here's my tweaks for that: BEGIN 01autoremove--local #clear APT::NeverAutoRemove; #clear APT::VersionedKernelPackages; #clear APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections; END BEGIN 01autoremove-kernels-local #clear APT::NeverAutoRemove; END BEGIN 99zz-local APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false"; END Reason for the oddly named 01* files is to (hopefully¹) override immediately after unwanted declarations but not shadow e.g. 01autoremove-postgresql deemed important to preserve. - Jonas ¹ I have not found documentation for nor tested if sorting order of inclusions is safe - just seemingly works for my da_DK locale. -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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