Re: Aptitude status output meaning

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency,
> so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will
> automatically be removed as well.

Thanks! I had realised that "i" meant installed, but as large numbers of 
dependencies get installed automatically as far as I am concerned, I hadn't 
managed to work out that some of them got marked!  Very few things seem 
actually to acquire the "A".

Lisi