Bug 114049

Summary: [3.1] manage automatically installed packages like aptitude
Product: [Unmaintained] adept Reporter: Sergio Cambra <sergio>
Component: generalAssignee: Peter Rockai <me>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: adaptee, alejandro, chandru.in, herve
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Sergio Cambra 2005-10-08 02:59:49 UTC 
Version:           0.5-rc (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I would like adept manage packages which are installed automatically due to dependencies like aptitude, that is, mark them as automatically installed and when they aren't needed remove them.

With aptitude when I install a package and it has to download some dependencies, these packages are marked as automatically installed, and afterthat if I uninstall it, those packages are removed.
Comment 1 Peter Rockai 2006-01-22 09:59:34 UTC 
This is probably 3.0 material, due to limited timeframe and libapt-pkg's current nonsupport for this.
Comment 2 Matej Cepl 2006-02-02 05:55:09 UTC 
How far are we from 3.0 version?
Comment 3 Peter Rockai 2006-02-12 03:46:50 UTC 
How far = now probably a year or so, considering my rather limited time.
Comment 4 Peter Rockai 2006-07-20 07:51:12 UTC 
*** Bug 125673 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Michael 2007-03-12 17:19:19 UTC 
Note that apt-get now also seems to have this functionality - it will flag up unneeded dependencies which are left after you have uninstalled a package.
Comment 6 Sergio Cambra 2007-03-12 21:19:41 UTC 
And adept is flagging like installed automatically, but it isn't using autoremove to clean dependencies. Although you add APT::Get::AutomaticRemove "true"; to /etc/apt/apt.conf packages which was automatically installed are not uninstalled when they're not used, and apt-get does that.
Comment 7 Chandra Sekar 2008-01-09 06:57:09 UTC 
Synaptic does this automatically.  I think there should be no technical difficulty in implementing this.  It has already been more than an year but this is still absent.
Comment 8 Peter Rockai 2008-03-09 15:38:08 UTC 
It'll be done when it'll be done. I have other things to do, no worry.
Comment 9 Jekyll Wu 2013-09-21 04:44:21 UTC 
Adept has been in the unmaintained state for a few years.  Use muon[1] as replacement .

[1] https://launchpad.net/muon