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



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