[Aptitude-devel] Bug#960562: had to reinstall a package to avoid 'bullying'

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "SJ" == Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> writes:

SJ> There might be some arguments for "aptitude install <package>" to clear
SJ> the automatic flag (IIRC apt and apt-get do that), but some people
SJ> probably rely on the current aptitude behavior not to do that.

Well like

       $ man aptitude
       forbid-version
           ...

           To revert the action, “aptitude install <package>” will
           remove the ban...


Also if the user really wants to keep the auto flag, then there seems to
also be these he can use:

       install...
           <package>+
               Install <package>.

               If the package was not installed, it is marked as manually installed, and the dependencies newly
               installed are marked with the automatic flag. If the package or the dependencies were already
               installed, the automatic flag is preserved. See the section about automatic installations in the
               documentation for more information.

           <package>+M
               Install <package> and immediately mark it as automatically installed (note that if nothing depends
               on <package>, this will cause it to be immediately removed).