From 083e72a5939d33dc1fd7596aa441a9982332f776 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:12:43 +0200
Subject: Add ?automatic and ?garbage patterns

These patterns allow you to identify automatically installed
packages, as well as automatically installed packages that are
no longer reachable from the manually installed ones.
---
 doc/apt-patterns.7.xml | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/apt-patterns.7.xml')

diff --git a/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml b/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml
index 5aa352f03..327ea17d5 100644
--- a/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml
@@ -69,6 +69,12 @@
      <varlistentry><term><code>?architecture(WILDCARD)</code></term>
      <listitem><para>Selects packages matching the specified architecture, which may contain wildcards using any.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
+     <varlistentry><term><code>?automatic</code></term>
+     <listitem><para>Selects packages that were installed automatically.</para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+     <varlistentry><term><code>?garbage</code></term>
+     <listitem><para>Selects packages that can be removed automatically.</para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry><term><code>?name(REGEX)</code></term>
      <listitem><para>Selects packages where the name matches the given regular expression.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -77,6 +83,11 @@
 
 
  <refsect1><title>Examples</title>
+   <variablelist>
+     <varlistentry><term><code>apt remove ?garbage</code></term>
+     <listitem><para>Remove all packages that are automatically installed and no longer needed - same as apt autoremove</para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+   </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1><title>Migrating from aptitude</title>
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