On Seg, 05 Jul 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote:
When you don't know that you already have a given package, and that you
want to install it, apt-get tells you that you already have it, and sets
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.
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The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
-- George Meredith
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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