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.
This is probably 3.0 material, due to limited timeframe and libapt-pkg's current nonsupport for this.
How far are we from 3.0 version?
How far = now probably a year or so, considering my rather limited time.
*** Bug 125673 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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.
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.
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.
It'll be done when it'll be done. I have other things to do, no worry.
Adept has been in the unmaintained state for a few years. Use muon[1] as replacement . [1] https://launchpad.net/muon