What are your thoughts regarding:
apt autocleanThis is subjective.
You would absolutely scream if you got the utility bill for the servers and mirrors
OK.... autoremove going berserk.
A ‘meta-package’ is a convenient way to bulk-install groups of applications, their libraries and documentation. Many Linux distributions use them for a variety of purposes, from seeding disk images that will go on to become new releases, to creating software “bundles” that are easy for a user to install. A meta-package rarely contains anything other than a changelog and perhaps copyright information, it contains no applications or libraries within itself. The way they work is by having a list of “dependencies” that the package manager reads. The package manager then goes to the repositories to find the dependencies and installs them.
Generally a software “bundle” meta-package is a one-time-use thing. Many will say in their description “After installation this package can be safely removed.” Once the software itself is installed, the package manager will take care of updates for the installed applications and libraries, so the meta-package is no longer required. Those can be removed with no penalty.
Others, like ones that install an entire desktop environment, will depend more on the user’s long-term goals. Meta-packages are often used for more than installing the current versions of software. They can also be used for upgrading.
And there is somewhat more to it. For reading the whole article click hereRemoving the meta-package does not remove any other currently installed software or cause dependency issues with any other currently installed software. The only thing potentially broken is the ability to do a complete release upgrade.
)Great articles! Thank you for the links!thx-1138 wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 10, 2018 12:12 pm ...have a look at: https://administratosphere.wordpress.co ... utoremove/
And also: https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article8/ ... ta-package
Because
So apparently, there is no way of making the system regard all the dependencies installed, when you install a meta-package, as "manually" installed as opposed to "automatically". That's whenwhen you install a metapackage, you are really saying that you want all of the dependencies installed, even though all of the dependencies are marked as automatically installed. A metapackage is an easy way of saying that you want all of these packages (listed as dependencies) installed without explicitly saying so. However, the system does not know this.
This problem then manifests itself when you remove one of the dependencies.
https://administratosphere.wordpress.co ... utoremove/
apt-mark manualyou mentioned above, can save the day. Cheersthx-1138 wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:10 pm ...the...moral conclusion of the story more or less is: someone should not mess with the pre-installed packages of his/her distro,
unless he/she understands quite well it's structural complexities, and also furthermore always pays attention to what apt does.
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wget -N http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/fonts-freefont/ttf-freefont_20120503-4_all.deb 2>&1
sudo dpkg -i ttf-freefont* 2>&1
sudo apt-get -yq remove mintinstall 2>&1
wget -N -nv http://packages.linuxmint.com//pool/main/m/mintinstall/mintinstall_7.7.8_all.deb 2>&1
sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=ttf-freefont -i mintinstall_7.7.8_all.deb 2>&1
echo "mintinstall hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections 2>&1Try this:Don Edwards wrote: ⤴Thu Jul 12, 2018 1:21 am Edit: and now I find out that having mintinstall on mintupdate's blackout list doesn't mean that it won't be updated every single time I update anything else... what's the blacklist for, again? I thought it was a way of saying "don't update these things" but apparently that isn't correct.
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sudo apt-mark hold mintinstallSame here. And I'm even worse: I use the un-crippled ubuntu version of synaptic with "mark all upgrades".
