Re: auto vs user installed

2009-11-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:13:45AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 09 November 2009 10:37:29 Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > and some with '{u}' meaning user installed. > > No. '{u}' indicates that the package is "unused". This means that the > package is both automatically installe

Re: auto vs user installed

2009-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 November 2009 10:37:29 Rick Pasotto wrote: > Aptitude marks some packages with '{a}' meaning automatically (or is it > aptitude?) installed It is automatically installed. While much of the software installation process is always automated, this flag indicates that the package manage

auto vs user installed

2009-11-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
Aptitude marks some packages with '{a}' meaning automatically (or is it aptitude?) installed and some with '{u}' meaning user installed. Is it the case that some packages that were in fact automatically installed are marked as user installed because they were installed before aptitude started reco