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Re: A list of installed packages (no dependencies) -- this may help
- From: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 22:05:34 -0600
- Subject: Re: A list of installed packages (no dependencies) -- this may help
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On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> A command such as this would need to distinguish between packages manually
> installed and those automatically installed, regardless of where they fall on
> the dependency tree.
To elaborate, this is accomplished on Linux with the file
/var/lib/apt/extended_states
http://askubuntu.com/a/181544
The analog to this on Cygwin is
/etc/setup/installed.db
However this currently only tracks
- package name
- package version
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