nginx package

Alexey Ten (Lynn) alexeyten+deb at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 17:08:16 UTC 2012


I guess you have installed package which depends on httpd, so it
prevent nignx-full to be removed automatically.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 20:35, Deni Bertović <deni at kset.org> wrote:
> Unfortunalety that does not happen. That's the main problem.
> After doing 'apt-get remove nginx', 'apt-get autoremove' does NOT remove the
> nginx-full and nginx-common packages.
>
>
> -Deni
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Alexey Ten (Lynn) <alexeyten+deb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> nginx-full and nginx-common are marked autoinstalled, so apt-get
>> autoremove will remove them as long as you remove nginx.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 19:44, Deni Bertović <deni at kset.org> wrote:
>> > I believe that some corrections need to be made to this package.
>> >
>> > Namely the 'nginx' package contains only the docs (/usr/share/nginx/doc)
>> > when it should be a meta package aggregating nginx-full and
>> > nginx-common.
>> >
>> > "apt-get install nginx" when invoked initially on a clean machine
>> > recognizes
>> > that nginx-full and nginx-common need to be installed and that is fine.
>> > However, when "apt-get remove nginx" is invoked right after that,  it
>> > only
>> > removes the nginx package (the doc package) and leaves nginx-full and
>> > nginx-common intact and still installed.
>> > I believe it should remove all of the packages so that when install is
>> > invoked again it actually re-installs them again.
>> >
>> > Also if the nginx package just contains the docs should it not be named
>> > nginx-doc? The nginx meta package should then aggregate nginx-full,
>> > nginx-common and nginx-doc. And when remove is invoked remove them all
>> > from
>> > the system.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -Deni
>> >
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