On Du, 05 apr 20, 11:59:17, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I did a test run. I think I see the pattern of which packages it marks as > manual. > E.G. It shows systemd related items as "manual". But for *MY* purposes I > would class them as "auto". That will not be a problem in practice. I'll > just do what the installer thinks is an absolute minimal install and run > 'apt-mark showmanual' against it. I'll save that list. Then create a script > to ignore those lines when 'apt-mark showmanual' is run against my actual > system. Something I used to do for similar purposes[1] was to mark everything as auto installed and then mark as manual the packages I was actually using (typically things like mutt, GUI/TUI browser, etc.). This was done using aptitude's interactive mode (not sure if apt-mark even existed at the time), as I could easily see what aptitude wanted to keep or remove. If you intend to also *remove* packages based on this approach do mind the settings for "APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant" and "APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant". [1] I stopped doing this because I found the optimization was not worth the time spent. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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