Enhancing the behavior that 1 package gets automatically installed

Bug #1455684 reported by Removed by request
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Bug Description

I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 with apt 1.0.9.7ubuntu4 and if I'm installing a package with "apt-get install" and apt figures out that only 1 package needs to be installed apt does install it automatically without asking the user. Maybe the behavior should be changed to always ask the user because:

- If "apt-get remove" would remove only 1 package it does ask the user too.
- apt-get has the option -y which does already skip prompts so automatically implying this in some situations doesn't look consistent.

Personally if I'm using "apt-get install" I want to see first which packages would get installed before I'm making a choice. And as I normally don't know if this would result that only 1 package would get installed apt does install it automatically in this case even if I don't want it.

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Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

When removing a package have to be careful: Removing a package is far more dangerous than installing a new one on average, so we ask the user if he release wants to remove it.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Opinion
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