On a fresh (just installed) edgy, auto-removable list is empty. deborhan
-a lists the following:

main/base                 ubuntu-standard
main/net                  vsftpd
main/base                 linux-image-generic
main/base                 linux-image-2.6.17-7-generic
main/base                 ubuntu-desktop
main/base                 ubuntu-minimal
main/misc                 installation-report

the only thing I installed was vsftpd. the average user will not want to
uninstall these, even by mistake, except vsftpd.

> Amusingly, users do want to mass-remove packages they installed once 
> in a while. At least I do.

I don't think via using deborphan -a... But I see what you are trying to
say I think. You want to see a list of files you installed to clean up
the system. For that, I myself would like to see a field in synaptic
filters such as "installed by user on top of base".

but I don't think it's a good idea to let synaptic use deborphan -a and
give feedback to the user on the basis of its output. it's dangerous at
best.

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