On Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 08:47:21 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto. > > The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant > > by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you appear to assume it does, > > that you were involved in manually selecting it for installation. It > > just means "not auto". > > To me "auto" means "not manually",
Yes, auto and manual are anotnyms. > so I'm just as confused as Rodolfo > and I think for good reasons. I don't know whether Rodolfo is still confused after the explanation I gave. AFAICT once you realise that manual means "not marked as auto" rather than "I installed this by typing apt* <packagename>", then it's fairly obvious that "manual" is a bucket term that includes, for example, packages installed by the debian-installer because they're essential, with Priority: required. I can't remember installing bash or grep, but they're certainly not auto, so they're going to be "unmarked auto", or "marked non-auto", or "marked manual". I think I'll stick to the last. What would you prefer? > There might be technical reasons behind > the way it currently works, but I think this qualifies as a bug (maybe > a UI bug, maybe a coding bug, maybe a doc bug). *What* qualifies as a bug...that you're confused? Cheers, David.
