On 2016-07-07 15:42 -0500, David Wright wrote: > When aptitude is run in interactive mode, it shows a list of > Virtual Packages > virtual, which is 8267 lines long on my > jessie laptop. Where does aptitude get this list from? > Does it laboriously construct it from Provides:, Replaces:, > and Conflicts: lines in the Packages files and then cache > it to speed things up?
Only from Provides, Replaces and Conflicts are not taken into account.
Cheers,
Sven
