[Aptitude-devel] Bug#638049: aptitude forgets which packages were installed automatically

[Harald Dunkel]

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Hi Manuel,

On 01/23/16 01:11, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
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> Hi Harald,
> 
> 2011-08-16 21:07 Harald Dunkel:
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>> (I'd love to have some option in aptitude to mark all installed packages as automatically installed, except for those that do not appear on the Depends or Recommends list of any installed package. This would make the use of some high level meta packages much more interesting.)
> 
> This can be done with patterns.
> 

More info would be welcome.

> 
> Did you keep an eye on this and saw this happening recently?
> 

I just have to look at the list of installed packages. There
are some very weird packages that I *surely* did not install
on purpose. They were installed via some dependency and lost
the "automatically installed" flag later. Samples:

	libpkcs11-helper1
	libwildmidi-config
	claws-mail-i18n
	seabios
	shared-desktop-ontologies
	geoip-database
	tons of weird perl package
	even more weird python packages

I am afraid the problem is still in.


Regards
Harri

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