Activity for Peter Taylorâ€
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A: Is this a robust way to distinguish explicitly installed packages from those pulled in as dependencies? `apt-mark` aims to do this: the commands `apt-mark showmanual` and `apt-mark showauto` should show you respectively the packages which you explicitly installed and the ones which were added as dependencies. There are caveats. 1. There seems to be a common complaint that it shows too many packag... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |