[racket-dev] Package management

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 30 17:14:59 EDT 2013

And that's why I made it do that.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 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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