Bug#678889: autoremove: Does not remove suggested packages independent of APT::Install-Suggests

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:03:20PM +0200, Dominique Lasserre wrote:

Package: apt
Version: 0.9.7
thanks


Hi,

if APT::Install-Suggests is deactivated autoremove does not remove
(automatically installed) packages which are only suggested by other
packages. In that case APT does not install suggested packages so
expected behavior is that autoremove removes those suggested-only packages.

I definitely wouldn't want APT to do this. The current behaviour is
far more sensible and sane.

Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.



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My understanding of this autoremove feature is:
When I install a package which comes with some "hard" dependencies,
(auto)removal of this package should remove what was installed before
(except if I install those dependencies manually or if there are some
packages which depend on them).

Please look at (Ubuntu) example here (installation of lighttpd and
php5-cgi; libterm-readline-perl-perl keeps installed because of reverse
suggested dependencies to icoutils and perl):
http://paste.ubuntuusers.de/409287/

Imho this behavior is not sensible and you have to use other tools like
deborphan to track those "orphaned" packages. (In fact in German support
thread [1] we had to look closer at it to find reason why not all
packages got removed.)


I know this feature would not be very important but I hope to convince
you with example above that it would be the expected behavior ;) .


Regards

Dominique Lasserre


[1]:
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/a...ertem-pro/



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