[Aptitude-devel] Bug#683859: Bug#683859: closed by Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> (Re: Bug#683859: aptitude: APT::Get::Build-Dep-Automatic is not honored)

[Daniel Hartwig]

> > Aptitude provides for tracking sets of packages:
> >
> > # aptitude --add-user-tag foo-builddep build-dep foo
>
> I had no idea, thanks for making me aware of this!  It seems like a much
> better solution.  I'll definitely start using it.

Very useful feature but I don't think it gets a lot of exposure.

>
> > [then, after make foo]
> > # aptitude --remove-user-tag foo-builddep '?user-tag(foo-builddep)'
>
> Did you mean to add an unmarkauto to this command?

No, actually it should have 'remove' which I missed. The build deps are not
marked auto by the first command. The second should have been:

# aptitude --remove-user-tag foo-builddep remove '?user-tag(foo-builddep)'
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