Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Seg, 05 Jul 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> When you don't know that you already have a given package, and that yo= u >> want to install it, apt-get tells you that you already have it, and se= ts >> it to `manually installed.' Why does it set it to `manually installed'= >> like this? What's the interest? Most of the time, I don't know that I >> have a given package, and copy/paste a long list of packages that is >> needed for building something. > > If you asked for a package to be installed, it is reasonable to assume > that you want that package. If it is already installed, then naturally > there is no need to reinstall - but since you asked for it, it is > marked as manually installed - the same result you'd obtain if it was > not installed. --=20 Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
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