[Aptitude-devel] Bug#668912: aptitude marks random packages are manually installed.

[dE .]

On 07/27/12 07:52, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> On 26 July 2012 22:19, dE .<de.techno at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> This bug persists to a smaller extent with apt-get also. Now I have to
>> maintain a list of packages I manually installed and have to fix the list of
>> manually installed packages every time I run a PM.
> Can you provide more detail about which apt-get commands are doing this?
>
> The intended behaviour for apt-get is that any package explicitly
> mentioned on the command line will be marked manual, even if it was
> previously installed and marked auto.  If my memory serves me
> correctly, this is to avoid surprises when
>
>   # apt-get install A
>
> is used to upgrade A, which is previously auto-installed, and could
> indirectly result in that package being removed due to dependencies
> for example.
>
> If that describes your scenario then it is not a bug in apt-get.
>
> This behaviour may eventually be adopted in aptitude as well due to
> the high number of bugs/complaints about the problem resolver
> disregarding the list of packages on the command line.

This time, it was apt-get upgrade. No packages specified.

I'll give more e.gs