[clue-tech] Interesting sidux/smxi news

[Keith Hellman]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:08:24PM -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
>
> More interesting to me is the allusion here:
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> http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1091.html
>
> that synaptic knows about auto and manual installs.

I haven't actually read the link, but I have the impression that apt-get 
has this knowledge, because it provides the autoremove target, which
if the description is correct, only removes cruft that was
autoinstalled.

I'm probably wrong --- too much fortran makes me think in strange ways.

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