[racket-dev] Package management

An hour and a half ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> 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.

I think that all distros do that for a number of years now.

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