Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 08:50:21AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2022 20:21:03 +0200, David Kalnischkies > wrote: > >apt actually marks dependencies > >of packages in section metapackages as manually installed if the > >metapackage is removed due to the removal of one of its dependenci

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 06:47:19PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they > > > > > remove a > > > > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all > > > > > dependencies of the meta-package are removed by ac

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:44:29PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:28:21PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove > > > > a > > > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:28:21PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove a > > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all > > > dependencies of the meta-package are removed by accident. > > Not to rain

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 08:21:03PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove a > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all > > dependencies of the meta-package are removed by accident. > > Not to rain on y

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 25 May 2022 20:21:03 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: >apt actually marks dependencies >of packages in section metapackages as manually installed if the >metapackage is removed due to the removal of one of its dependencies >– but doesn't if you decide to remove the metapackage explicitly.

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-25 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello David and others, Op 25-05-2022 om 20:30 schreef David Kalnischkies: On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 10:33:22AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove a package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all dependencies

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-25 Thread Fabio Fantoni
Il 25/05/2022 10:33, Paul van der Vlis ha scritto: Op 23-05-2022 om 13:00 schreef Fabio Fantoni: Il 23/05/2022 01:42, Glauber Baldez ha scritto: Some considerations for project improvement: 1. Debian should already offer users a minimal installation mode similar to Ubuntu, without media playe

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 10:33:22AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove a > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all > dependencies of the meta-package are removed by accident. Not to rain on your parade,

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-25 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 23-05-2022 om 13:00 schreef Fabio Fantoni: Il 23/05/2022 01:42, Glauber Baldez ha scritto: Some considerations for project improvement: 1. Debian should already offer users a minimal installation mode similar to Ubuntu, without media players, games and office applications. 2. Debian shoul

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-23 Thread Fabio Fantoni
Il 23/05/2022 01:42, Glauber Baldez ha scritto: Some considerations for project improvement: 1. Debian should already offer users a minimal installation mode similar to Ubuntu, without media players, games and office applications. 2. Debian should follow Doug Gwyn's words in stating that Unix

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-22 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Glauber Baldez writes: > I repeat again: desktop environment and desktop applications are not > the same thing, so they shouldn't be treated as such either. Good point. I have Evolution and LibreOffice installed for several years without actually using them. And these packages have mammoth sizes