Re: auto vs user installed
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:13:45AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 09 November 2009 10:37:29 Rick Pasotto wrote:
>
> > and some with '{u}' meaning user installed.
>
> No. '{u}' indicates that the package is "unused". This means that the
> package is both automatically installed, and there is currently no package
> that depends on it installed.
Ah! Thanks for correcting my confusion.
> Both apt-get and aptitude have a mode that removes all unused packages. I
> thought aptitude's default behavior was to remove these as well.
I suspect they *become* unused as other packages are upgraded.
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