On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:31:21 +0200 "Peter Valdemar Mørch (vol)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty dtutty-at-porchlight.ca |volatile-lists| wrote: > > I use aptitude (this is not a troll, please), and I use it > > interactivly. I have only those pacakges that I specifically _want_ > > installed marked as manual with everything else being automatic. > > Aaaaaa! What is *THIS*? "manual" contra "automatic"? This sounds > interesting! I just use > > # apt-get install bla-bla-bla > > Didn't know apt/dpkg kept track of and internally distinguished > between manual and automatic installs. I was always curious about why > it didn't distinguish between packages I explicitly ask to have > installed and prerequisites for those pacakges and now I find that it > does!!! > > I'll have to look into that! Can I query & change this from the > command line? aptitude keeps track of that for you, but not apt-get or the lower-level utilities. So if you have been using apt-get all along than that information will not have been stored. You can still use deborphan to remove unwanted and unneeded packages. -- Liam
