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Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

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On 2020-04-05 at 11:30, Richard Owlett wrote:

> I moved from WindowsXP when Squeeze was the current release. In the
> first year I did *many* installs from scratch to determine what I 
> wanted in a final system (made much use of preseeding).
> 
> I currently have a configuration of Stretch that meets most of my
> needs. As the installation was performed using the default Debian
> installer, there is a plethora of packages of no interest installed.
> As some important packages are not installed by default, apt and
> Synaptic were used to install them.
> 
> I'm setting out to do an _extremely_ custom *minimal* install of
> Buster. The desired inventory shall list *ONLY* top level packages. [
> E.G. if gfortran was purposely installed, the ~dozen packages 
> installed because they were tagged as depends, recommends, or
> suggests wold *NOT* be listed. ]

This sounds like a job for apt's "manual" vs. "auto" status flag.

'apt-mark showmanual' will list all the packages which are flagged as
being manually installed.

Specifying a package explicitly to 'apt-get install' or similar flags it
as manually installed, if you actually go through and complete the
installation (cancelling the install also cancels the flag). Any
packages which it pulls in as dependencies - whether "Depends:"
"Recommends", or "Suggests:" - get flagged as "auto" instead.

From what I've seen, it looks as if debian-installer also flags some
packages as manually installed, during initial install of the Debian
system. I don't know which ones do and don't get that treatment.

I don't know if that's good enough for you, but it's very likely the
best you're going to get.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-04-05 17:50 +0200
  Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-04-05 18:00 +0200
    Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-04-05 19:00 +0200
      Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 12:50 +0200
    Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 12:40 +0200
  Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-05 19:10 +0200
    Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-04-05 20:20 +0200
      Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-06 19:10 +0200
  Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-04-05 20:30 +0200
    Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-04-06 04:30 +0200

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