Aptitude: What is the {u} suffix on packages?

David Curtis dave.c.curtis at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 16:08:19 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some packages have an {a} suffix as well. What is this?
>
>
If you're talking about aptitude on the command line, from the authors blog:

"Here {a} indicates that a package was automatically installed or removed,
and {u} indicates that a package is being removed because it is unused.
Hopefully this will be less confusing than the old format."
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