getting a list of manually installed package

[Rob Wilco <rob.wilco@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I re-read the aptitude reference [1], but I haven't found a way to get 
the list of just the package I have installed manually, intentionally. I 
have played with command such as these :

aptitude search '!~M~i'

which give me the package that are installed (~i) and that were not 
automatically installed (!~M) but it gives me all the package that are 
installed by default on an etch + the one I want.

Or with

aptitude search '!~M~i!~E'

which gives the same list minus the packages that are not essentials.

Do someone knows a way to get this list (apt-* commands, dselect, 
synaptic...) ?

Cheers,



[1] http://people.debian.org/~dburrows/aptitude-doc/en/