Re: Handling of removed packages

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 29-May-08, 07:07 (CDT), Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: 
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> > Our current package management doesn't handle this case at all, so we
> 
> That is not entirely true: aptitude (and also dselect) does clearly display 
> obsolete and locally built packages in a separate category.

Parsing error, I think. 

Aptitude shows a group of "obsolete and locally created packages".
However, it doesn't distinguish between them, as far as I can tell,
which is what Marc (and I) would like.

Steve

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