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authorJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2018-12-11 17:38:27 +0100
committerJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2019-01-10 10:38:59 +0100
commitbe7eb047e1202971f84bb4ac27e796d85bebdce9 (patch)
tree7c754a5a0f4cfd4b50352988b97ca09fcb54ce14 /doc
parent29626ddaf19284855ba3244cff28612cbc1e2b84 (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.
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diff --git a/doc/apt-mark.8.xml b/doc/apt-mark.8.xml
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--- a/doc/apt-mark.8.xml
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@@ -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.