Previously Andrew Pimlott wrote: > FYI, Eric is talking about a feature commonly requested for > dpkg/apt: Marking a package as selected only because of > dependencies, so it can be automatically deselected. It might be > interesting to see how he implements it. This has long long ago been been specified and put into the Apt UI texts. We're still waiting for something to implement them.. The idea is to mark that a package has been installed due to a dependency and not because of a explicit user action. When we find later that no packages need it anymore we can offer to remove it. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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