Re: Swap

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>]

> On Sun, 2016-02-07 at 17:02 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > first, I assume the orgiinal poster is talking anout third party software
> > not coming ad .deb packages.

On 07.02.16 16:23, llcfree wrote:
> Again, apologies, probably I was confused because this is a debian list.

no problem, we have just made different assumptions...

> > second, I found out that packages installed automatically can sometimes lose
> > their automatic status, so they don't get removed with autoremove.
>
> Can you please be specific? A clean system is for most people a
> requirement.

shortly after new install, I found that some packages and libraries are NOT
marked as automatically installed.

Also, I often use aptitude and I have few times noticed that packages lost
their auto-installed status.  Luckily it can be easily fixed in aptitude.
I have no idea when this happend but it happened a few times.

as a result I often go manually through package lists and manually mark
packages as auto-installed.  They are mostly -data, -common, -base and
libraries, but I often mark auto-installed packages other packages depend
on.
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