Re: package names
On Thursday 03 September 2009 11:19:11 michael wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 03:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 2009-09-03 03:11, michael wrote:
> > > had a quick looks about but can't see what {a} means in package
> > > names (I've just upgraded from etch to lenny)
> > >
> > > would somebody point me to the relevant documentation?
> >
> > Can you show us an example?
>
> 10:17:57 ~$ sudo aptitude install bogofilter
> [sudo] password for mkb:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> bogofilter bogofilter-bdb{a} bogofilter-common{a} libgsl0ldbl{a}
> 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not
> upgraded. Need to get 1364kB of archives. After unpacking 3678kB
> will be used.
The {a} is not part of the package name, but a suffix indicating that
this package will be installed automatically and thus will be
automatically removed in case there are no more packages that depend on
it.
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