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| author | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2018-12-11 17:38:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2019-01-10 10:38:59 +0100 |
| commit | be7eb047e1202971f84bb4ac27e796d85bebdce9 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c754a5a0f4cfd4b50352988b97ca09fcb54ce14 /doc | |
| parent | 29626ddaf19284855ba3244cff28612cbc1e2b84 (diff) | |
apt-mark: Introduce minimize-manual
This visits dependencies of all manually installed metapackages,
as determined by APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections, and marks them as
automatically installed. It can be used to clean up autoflags after
a d-i install, for example.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-mark.8.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-mark.8.xml b/doc/apt-mark.8.xml index ddde0416f..ea39b7faa 100644 --- a/doc/apt-mark.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-mark.8.xml @@ -66,6 +66,14 @@ </para></listitem> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><option>minimize-manual</option></term> + <listitem><para><literal>minimize-manual</literal> is used to mark + (transitive) dependencies of metapackages as automatically installed. + This can be used after an installation for example, to minimize the + number of manually installed packages; or continuously on systems + managed by system configuration metapackages. + </para></listitem> + </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><option>showauto</option></term> <listitem><para><literal>showauto</literal> is used to print a list of automatically installed packages with each package on a new line. |