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that's a rather painful way to do things, and there is no distinction between packages I install myself, and those pulled in by dependencies

phunehehe
– phunehehe

2010-10-29 07:18:35 +00:00
Commented Oct 29, 2010 at 7:18
I agree, but I didn't know that apt keeps track of those :/ Now I know, thanks to Stefan :)

Joril
– Joril

2010-10-29 14:00:50 +00:00
Commented Oct 29, 2010 at 14:00

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