On Thursday 03 September 2009 11:19:11 michael wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 03:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-09-03 03:11, michael wrote: > > > had a quick looks about but can't see what {a} means in package > > > names (I've just upgraded from etch to lenny) > > > > > > would somebody point me to the relevant documentation? > > > > Can you show us an example? > > 10:17:57 ~$ sudo aptitude install bogofilter > [sudo] password for mkb: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > bogofilter bogofilter-bdb{a} bogofilter-common{a} libgsl0ldbl{a} > 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not > upgraded. Need to get 1364kB of archives. After unpacking 3678kB > will be used.
The {a} is not part of the package name, but a suffix indicating that this package will be installed automatically and thus will be automatically removed in case there are no more packages that depend on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org