Re: Aptitude status output meaning

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

On Friday 30 April 2010 19:14:51 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:36 Lisi wrote:
> > 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".
>
> On my little VM I have 294 packages installed, 277 marked as automatically
> installed.
>
> I find that the more packages are automatically installed, the easier
> upgrades are, since aptitude seems more willing to preform a library
> transition on a "automatically installed" package.
>
> I try to only keep packages I know I am using un-marked.

Boyd -

If I live to be a hundred, I just _might_ achieve your level of knowledge and 
competence.  Meanwhile, I don't even attempt to emulate you.  I just read and 
hope to understand you!

Lisi