[wplug] {a} software packages

[Arnaud]

*That would make sense. Looking back through my command history the specific
package I was attempting to install was the only one listed that didn't have
the {a}, all the rest were dependencies and did have it. I don't typically
use aptitude which is why this was new to me. Thanks.
*
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Arnaud wrote:
> > I'm installing some software packages from an old jaunty repo in
> > ubuntu lucid and I noticed that each of the packages had {a}
> > appended to the end of it. Can someone tell me what this means?
>
> I think aptitude uses this to indicate packages that are being
> installed automatically to fulfill dependencies.  But I couldn't find
> any definitive documentation of this, only an example in the man page.
>
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