> Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> wrote: >> In theory, yes you could discover whether a package was installed >> explicity or has been pulled in as a dependency.
>> In practice, however, a "normal" Debian installation marks each and >> every package as being installed explicitly. > ? huh ? This has never been the case AFAICT. That's how apt-get > autoremove works. Each package you specify on an individual apt-get > install line gets marked as manually installed - the dependencies of > those are not so marked. I think you missed the "installation" part, and Matthias is talking about the behavior of d-i. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87k39pzn55....@windlord.stanford.edu
