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[racket-dev] Package management

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 27 15:35:33 EDT 2013		 
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> The package system has a notion of "auto" packages, which are packages
> that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. Also, `raco
> pkg remove' supports an `--auto' flag for automatically removing auto
> packages that have no non-auto packages depending on them.

Note that this is also how the deb package manager (on
Debian/Ubuntu/etc) works, so we have good precedent here.

Sam
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