On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:05:25PM -0400, CSights <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Recently aptitude gained the ability to automaticall install the > dependencies > need to build a package from source. "aptitude build-deps <package>" Thank > you very much! > Next it would be nice to easily uninstall the build-deps. This could > be done > by having a dummy package created upon running "aptitude build-deps > <package>" which depended on all of these build-deps, then install this dummy > package. All the build-deps would marked as automatically installed and > uninstalling the dummy package would uninstall the build-deps other packages > do not depend on.
Just FYI, I added a feature called "user tags", and this was one of its main motivating use cases. You should be able to run aptitude build-dep foo --add-user-tag-to installed-for-foo-build-dep "?action(install)" and then aptitude purge ?user-tag(installed-for-foo-build-dep) when you're done. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]