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Subject: Re: A list of installed packages (no dependencies) -- this may help
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On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Houder wrote:
> It computes the "top vertices" of the forest (i.e. the dependency graph), i.e.
> the pkgs that no other pkg depends on (within the context of a specific
> installation of Cygwin).

In the context of a command such as "apt-get autoremove", this is irrelavant.

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.

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