On 2016-07-07 15:42 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> When aptitude is run in interactive mode, it shows a list of
> Virtual Packages > virtual, which is 8267 lines long on my
> jessie laptop. Where does aptitude get this list from?
> Does it laboriously construct it from Provides:, Replaces:,
> and Conflicts: lines in the Packages files and then cache
> it to speed things up?
Only from Provides, Replaces and Conflicts are not taken into account.
Cheers,
Sven