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

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 20:24:15 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 18:08, David Curtis <dave.c.curtis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
>

Thanks, David! I was able to google the quote and find the blog:
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/aptitude-0.4.10-released/

Have a great week!

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