Comment 4 for bug 122064
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| Conrad Knauer (atheoi) wrote Re: [Wishlist] Removing software+dependencies currently much more difficult than installing them | #4 |
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I wasn't sure exactly what that did, so I tried it with my "alien" example and here's what happened:
Before selecting anything , the Automatic Removable (AR) filter showed nothing.
After marking alien for complete removal, AR showed alien for complete removal as well as listed the other eight dependant packages.
I could now easily mark them all for removal.
This is closer to what I was after, but there's still that manual step between marking alien for removal and removing it and all its otherwise unused dependencies.
The primary goal of my wishlist bug was to create a reverse of the regular install sequence, so that you can mark a package for installation and it also does that for its dependencies. Perhaps if one were to add an option when right-clicking a package "Mark for autoremoval" to thus have Synaptic ask what apt-get autoremove would: if we want to mark the other eight packages for removal too...