Re: package names

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-09-03 11:19 +0200, 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.
> 
> It means that the package is {a}utomatically installed to fulfill
> dependencies.


thanks to everybody who's educated me on this! M