Re: package management begins to annoy me
On 26 Feb 2009 22:20:58 +0100
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> wrote:
...
> 1. aptitude has the nice feature of marking packages that are install
> automatically, qhich I always missed in apt-get. But every once in
> a while I check the installed package with
>
> aptitude search . | grep ^i
>
> (BTW, is there a simpler way to do this?) and I quite often see
> installed packages, which are not marked 'A' for automatically
> installed but which I definitely know I have never installed
> manually. Unfortunately, I currently don't have examples at hand.
I've seen this, too. Just recently, I found some java stuff marked as
manually installed, which I'm certain that I did not install manually,
at least not intentionally, although I suppose that if one can
sleep-email [0], it's possible that I sleep-installed something :) Two
of the packages I found were libxom-java and bsh. I'm not a java dev,
I'd never heard of these before, I don't have automatic installation
of recommends enabled, and the only java stuff on this system should
have been automatically installed dependencies of things like OO and
bootchart.
[0]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3743289/Zzz-mail-What-happens-when-sleepwalkers-go-online.html
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