Re: Question about get-selections

[Owen Townend <owen.townend@gmail.com>]

2009/4/24 Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>:
> On 2009-04-23_21:27:07, Daniel Burrows wrote:
[snip]
>>
>>   The "state" is a flag indicating the package's current state.  It's
>> written as an integer because I designed this code when I was young and
>> foolish. :-)  The relevant values are:

The hint was here.. ^^
...'I designed this code'...

$ man aptitide | grep  -A1 ^AUTHOR
AUTHOR
       Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>

[snip]
>
> Besides get-selections there are other approaches to saving and restoring
> the state of the apt system. Are you aware of the documentation package
> for aptitude?
[snip]

cheers,
Owen.