Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:14:51PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > I find that the more packages are automatically installed, the easier > upgrades > are, since aptitude seems more willing to preform a library transition on a > "automatically installed" package. It is.

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 April 2010 19:14:51 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:36 Lisi wrote: > > On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > > > so if all packages depending on it are unins

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:36 Lisi wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > > so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will > > automatically be removed as well. > > Thanks! I ha

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will > automatically be removed as well. Thanks! I had realised that "i" meant installed, but as large numbers

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On Fri, Apr 30 at 16:06, Lisi penned: > > One, however, continues to elude me. What does the A mean in > at the beginning of a line in the results from an aptitude > search? > > Thanks! Lisi installed automatically. The "i" means installed. The "A" means that it was installed automatically

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 April 2010 15:30:23 Daniel Burrows wrote: >   The command-line output of aptitude is somewhat underdocumented. > Please feel free to submit bugs regarding bits of output that you think > need documentation.  I know there are lots of bug reports, but trust me, > I do read them, and it's

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:12:17AM +, Rémi Moyen was heard to say: > 2010/2/11 Sven Joachim : > > On 2010-02-11 08:30 +0100, Guy Marcenac wrote: > > > >> What is the meaning of [-107] in the status output of aptitude ? > >> Current status: 0 updates [-107] > > > > It means that there are 107

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-02-11 Thread Rémi Moyen
2010/2/11 John Hasler : > Rémi Moyen writes: >> aptitude man page is not helpful, I haven't found this in the online >> doc either... Did I miss a "complete" doc (apart from the code >> itself!) ? > > > Package: aptitude-doc-en If it contains the same thing as, for example, http://algebraicthunk.n

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-02-11 Thread John Hasler
Rémi Moyen writes: > aptitude man page is not helpful, I haven't found this in the online > doc either... Did I miss a "complete" doc (apart from the code > itself!) ? Package: aptitude-doc-en Priority: optional Section: doc Installed-Size: 1468 Maintainer: Daniel Burrows Architecture: all Sourc

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-02-11 Thread Rémi Moyen
2010/2/11 Sven Joachim : > On 2010-02-11 08:30 +0100, Guy Marcenac wrote: > >> What is the meaning of [-107] in the status output of aptitude ? >> Current status: 0 updates [-107] > > It means that there are 107 less than before, i.e. you have just > upgraded 107 packages. I take the opportunity o

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-02-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-11 08:30 +0100, Guy Marcenac wrote: > What is the meaning of [-107] in the status output of aptitude ? > Current status: 0 updates [-107] It means that there are 107 less than before, i.e. you have just upgraded 107 packages. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Aptitude status output meaning

2010-02-10 Thread Guy Marcenac
What is the meaning of [-107] in the status output of aptitude ? Current status: 0 updates [-107] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org