Anno domini 2020 Wed, 5 Aug 19:29:49 +0200 Slávek Banko scripsit: > Dne st 5. srpna 2020 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp napsal(a): > > > root@local [~]# apt-mark manual tde-trinity tdeutils-trinity > > > tde-trinity was already set to manually installed. > > > tdeutils-trinity set to manually installed. > > > > > > root@local [~]# apt-get purge klaptopdaemon-trinity > > > {snip} > > > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > > > required: > > > amor-trinity arts-trinity {snip} twin4-trinity xcalib > > > Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. > > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > > klaptopdaemon-trinity* tde-trinity* tdeutils-trinity* > > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > > > After this operation, 840 kB disk space will be freed. > > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > > > Abort. > > > > The metapackgs can be removed without any problem. > > Metapackages are good at installation, but poor servant during the removal > of individual packages. > > For metapackages to work well for installation, there is a need for a hard > dependency - Depends. If a looser dependency - Recomends - were used, the > result could be that virtually nothing would be installed when the default > apt setting is "without recommends". And here is the beginning of the > problem. If a user wants to remove a package that is referenced by a > metapackage, this will cause the metapackage to break => leads to its > uninstallation and thus to the uninstallation of all other packages > referenced by the metapackage. > > Therefore, before removing a metapackage, all referenced packages need to > be switched to "manual" so that they are retained even if the metapackage > is removed. This is more difficult to do manually with commands - it's > much easier to use aptitude. How do you do that with aptitude? nik > > And that's exactly why we like aptitude. Aptitude is much more powerful and > skillful than Synaptic. And just as useful as apt-get / apt-cache / > apt-<something> or apt. > > Cheers -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting