> Briefly, run aptitude in interactive mode - ie # aptitude > If you press g (only once), the proposed actions will be displayed, you > can then 'h' hold packages you don't want removed.
Since this is basically the issue I brought up a day or so earlier... Why should users have to wade through a (potentially long) list of packages and tell aptitude to install [+] or hold [=] the packages they don't want removed? After all it's been told to install the package at some point, and without an order to the contrary shouldn't even consider removing it. Maybe an explicit upgrade order for a single package should have this effect, but not the standard bring me up to date sequence ([u], [U], [g], [g]). Again what's the advantage over the old "don't auto-remove a package under any circumstances" behaviour? Especially given that this could easily be adapted to ""don't auto-remove a package unless it is marked auto (A)". C.
