On 2016-06-30 18:47:27 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-06-30 17:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > aptitude upgrade is now removing things. I ought, of course, to have > > typed safe-upgrade, but I thought only full-upgrade was supposed to > > remove anything. > > It removes packages which are marked as automatically installed and are > unused (i.e. not depended upon, recommended or suggested by any > manually installed package). This has been the default behavior for > many years (IIRC, since the safe-upgrade command has been implemented).
It can actually remove more (e.g. packages that are temporarily out-of-date, which is bad). On 2016-06-30 14:18:16 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Doesn't aptitude have a --keep-all flag to cover situations like this? No. Adding "removals" to Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10aptitude helps, but doesn't prevent all removals. :( -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
