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Re: Capital letter A before package name in aptitude



On Sunday 17 June 2007 20:38:43 Kees de Koster wrote:
> Hello, can't find the meaning from the capital letter A before the
> package name in aptitude, not in the help, Faq and man, also looked
> around in Google.
>
> So maybe somebody can tell me.
>
> Kees
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Hello Kees,

The capital A means that aptitude has marked the package as being 
automatically installed.  This means that the package was installed because 
it is a dependency of something you asked to be installed, and will be 
uninstalled if you remove that package from your system.

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