Excerpts from owner's message of Sat Aug 04 18:15:03 -0700 2012: > On 5 August 2012 06:49, Andrew Pimlott <and...@pimlott.net> wrote: > > (a way to hold off the automatic > > uninstalls until ready would be nice), > > Such an option exists: Aptitude::Delete-Unused.
Fair. > > 1. Often you only want the build-deps for the duration of a build, so > > the next run of aptitude is the right time to uninstall. > > Build-Dep-Automatic is a hack used by apt-get because it lacks a > better means of tracking sets of packages. Auto-installed is not > intended for temporary installs but tracking packages which are > installed only as dependencies of another. > > Aptitude provides for tracking sets of packages: > > # aptitude --add-user-tag foo-builddep build-dep foo I had no idea, thanks for making me aware of this! It seems like a much better solution. I'll definitely start using it. > [then, after make foo] > # aptitude --remove-user-tag foo-builddep '?user-tag(foo-builddep)' Did you mean to add an unmarkauto to this command? Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
