Package: apt Version: 3.0.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
When cleaning up cruft in a system, I used to use debfoster, which is nice because it allows me to get a short list of packages that are really the ones I want to keep, excluding all packages that are dependencies (or installed for other reasons). I understand apt-mark manual/auto is the new way to solve this, but I'm missing a tool that analyzes my system and provides a list of packages that can safely be marked 'auto'. 'apt-mark minimize-manual' doesn't really do that, because it only looks at dependencies of meta packages. I wrote a POC (using AI) to demonstrate what I mean: https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/apt-suggest-auto But I wonder if you would consider adding similar functionality in apt directly (typically by replacing the current implementation in apt-mark minimize-manual, or adding another subcommand). Best Lucas
