Re: package names

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Thu September 3 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >   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.

can we go a step further and ask what OTHER letters mean? I don't see this 
info under apt or apt-get.. where would it be?

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Paul Cartwright
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