Dmitrii Kashin wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > Ken Heard wrote:
> > in APT supporting 'apt-get autoremove'. With regards to that the
> > above no longer works well. For one problem it completely breaks the
> > extended_states paradigm.
> >
> > The extended_states paradigm is to track for each package whether it
> > was installed manually or installed as a dependency of another
> > package. If you install foo and foo depends upon libfoo then foo is
> > marked as manual and libfoo is marked as automatic.
>
> Yes. I have been skimming the whole thread for 10 minutes trying to know
> if somebody remember about autoremove. So I am very glad to see your
> letter. But I would like to append your answer.
>
> I did a migration from Squeeze to Wheezy a while ago, getting the list
> of manually installed packages by command:
>
> % aptitude search '?installed ?not(?automatic)' | awk '{print $2}'Ah, very good. > It is a very convenient way. And the only case I agree that aptitude is > useful. In Wheezy 7 and later there is now the apt-mark command with the showmanual action. (Squeeze 6 has apt-mark but not showmanual.) apt-mark showmanual Much less typing now and perhaps quite a bit faster too. :-) Bob
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