On 26 Feb 2009 22:20:58 +0100 Urs Thuermann <u...@isnogud.escape.de> wrote:
... > 1. aptitude has the nice feature of marking packages that are install > automatically, qhich I always missed in apt-get. But every once in > a while I check the installed package with > > aptitude search . | grep ^i > > (BTW, is there a simpler way to do this?) and I quite often see > installed packages, which are not marked 'A' for automatically > installed but which I definitely know I have never installed > manually. Unfortunately, I currently don't have examples at hand. I've seen this, too. Just recently, I found some java stuff marked as manually installed, which I'm certain that I did not install manually, at least not intentionally, although I suppose that if one can sleep-email [0], it's possible that I sleep-installed something :) Two of the packages I found were libxom-java and bsh. I'm not a java dev, I'd never heard of these before, I don't have automatic installation of recommends enabled, and the only java stuff on this system should have been automatically installed dependencies of things like OO and bootchart. [0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3743289/Zzz-mail-What-happens-when-sleepwalkers-go-online.html Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
