[Aptitude-devel] Bug#787663: Bug#787663: aptitude forgets/clears manually set auto-installed-flags in several situations

[matthias.hinkfoth2 at uni-rostock.de]

Hi Christoph,

> I know how it works, but that system alone is a bit limited, as it
> works only for those situations where there is actually a dependency
> expressed between the packages in question,... which in turn is however
> by far not every case where I install a package because of another
> package.

That is a good point. I am stumbling over it every now and then, too.

> Well AFAIU, the flag means auto-installed, not do-auto-remove... and if
> I have auto-removal turned of I see no reason why one should forbid the
> other use case...

My understanding of auto-installed is that the package was automatically
installed. If I install a package manually, it is clearly not auto-
installed.
But as I am sometimes really annoyed by non-existing or too heavy
package dependecies, I started to build meta-packages with the
(in my point of view) "correct" dependencies.
Since then, life became much easier. I do not have to work against
the package management any more.

Regards,
Matthias