On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:36 Lisi wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > > so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will > > automatically be removed as well. > > Thanks! I had realised that "i" meant installed, but as large numbers of > dependencies get installed automatically as far as I am concerned, I hadn't > managed to work out that some of them got marked! Very few things seem > actually to acquire the "A". On my little VM I have 294 packages installed, 277 marked as automatically installed. I find that the more packages are automatically installed, the easier upgrades are, since aptitude seems more willing to preform a library transition on a "automatically installed" package. I try to only keep packages I know I am using un-marked. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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