Hi,

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote (28 Aug 2009 12:37:24 GMT) :
> The sys handler uses dpkg --get-selections to get a list of
> installed packages. This method does not store whether packages are
> installed automatically, thus losing important information.

Ok.

> Instead,
> aptitude '~i!~M' should be used, only selecting not-automatically
> installed packages.

I am rather in favor of "aptitude search '~i'" to get the best of both
worlds: the whole installed packages list *and* the knowledge wether
a given package has been automatically installed.

What do you think of this?
Anyone wanting to contribute a patch? (preferably against Git head)

Bye,
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