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Re: systemd-fsck?



> Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> wrote:

>> In theory, yes you could discover whether a package was installed
>> explicity or has been pulled in as a dependency.

>> In practice, however, a "normal" Debian installation marks each and
>> every package as being installed explicitly.

> ? huh ? This has never been the case AFAICT. That's how apt-get
> autoremove works. Each package you specify on an individual apt-get
> install line gets marked as manually installed - the dependencies of
> those are not so marked.

I think you missed the "installation" part, and Matthias is talking about
the behavior of d-i.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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