On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 07:40:17PM +0100, Brian wrote: > /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz has > > AutomaticRemove "false"; > HideAutoRemove "false"; > > as configuration directives. I've never tried them but wouldn't mind > "true" being tested by someone and learning what happens.
Oh, that looks promising. titan:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local // APT::NeverAutoRemove "."; titan:~$ sudo apt-get -u upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: docutils-common docutils-doc firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc firebird2.5-server-common firebird3.0-common firebird3.0-common-doc fvwm-icons imagemagick-common liba52-0.7.4 libalgorithm-c3-perl libarchive-extract-perl libasn1-8-heimdal libavcodec56 libavdevice55 libavformat56 libavresample2 libavutil54 libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libbind9-90 libbluetooth3 libboost-system1.55.0 libc6-i686:i386 libclamav-client-perl libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libclass-method-modifiers-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libcolamd2.8.0 libcpan-changes-perl libcpan-meta-perl libdata-perl-perl libdata-section-perl libdca0 libdevel-caller-perl libdevel-globaldestruction-perl libdevel-lexalias-perl libdirectfb-1.2-9 .... titan:~$ sudo vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local titan:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local APT::NeverAutoRemove "."; titan:~$ sudo apt-get -u upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. That'll work! Thanks.
