From 6c36aa231b8dcde3b4698157a1ed1e7e4054a0ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 13:57:25 +0200 Subject: pass --force-remove-essential to dpkg only if needed APT (usually) knows which package is essential or not, so we can avoid passing this force flag to dpkg unconditionally if the user hasn't chosen a non-default essential handling obscuring the information. (cherry picked from commit d3930f8716f439c229cd3d11813823d847a2ecff) --- apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'apt-pkg') diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc index 23d3ff977..d224a34c0 100644 --- a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc +++ b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc @@ -1216,6 +1216,15 @@ void pkgDPkgPM::StopPtyMagic() */ bool pkgDPkgPM::Go(APT::Progress::PackageManager *progress) { + auto const ItemIsEssential = [](pkgDPkgPM::Item const &I) { + static auto const cachegen = _config->Find("pkgCacheGen::Essential"); + if (cachegen == "none" || cachegen == "native") + return true; + if (unlikely(I.Pkg.end())) + return true; + return (I.Pkg->Flags & pkgCache::Flag::Essential) != 0; + }; + pkgPackageManager::SigINTStop = false; d->progress = progress; @@ -1342,13 +1351,15 @@ bool pkgDPkgPM::Go(APT::Progress::PackageManager *progress) { case Item::Remove: ADDARGC("--force-depends"); - ADDARGC("--force-remove-essential"); + if (std::any_of(I, J, ItemIsEssential)) + ADDARGC("--force-remove-essential"); ADDARGC("--remove"); break; case Item::Purge: ADDARGC("--force-depends"); - ADDARGC("--force-remove-essential"); + if (std::any_of(I, J, ItemIsEssential)) + ADDARGC("--force-remove-essential"); ADDARGC("--purge"); break; -- cgit v1.2.3