On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:05:25PM -0400, CSights <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> Recently aptitude gained the ability to automaticall install the
> dependencies
> need to build a package from source. "aptitude build-deps <package>" Thank
> you very much!
> Next it would be nice to easily uninstall the build-deps. This could
> be done
> by having a dummy package created upon running "aptitude build-deps
> <package>" which depended on all of these build-deps, then install this dummy
> package. All the build-deps would marked as automatically installed and
> uninstalling the dummy package would uninstall the build-deps other packages
> do not depend on.
Just FYI, I added a feature called "user tags", and this was one of
its main motivating use cases.
You should be able to run
aptitude build-dep foo --add-user-tag-to installed-for-foo-build-dep
"?action(install)"
and then
aptitude purge ?user-tag(installed-for-foo-build-dep)
when you're done.
Daniel
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