From c19a3276fe7ecfc132e95b0277e9e68ff364dd92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:04:54 +0100
Subject: Support marking all newly installed packages as automatically
 installed

Add option '--mark-auto' to 'apt install' that marks all newly installed
packages as automatically installed.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
---
 doc/apt-get.8.xml            | 10 ++++++++++
 doc/examples/configure-index |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.xml b/doc/apt-get.8.xml
index e603ec5bb..a7b786dfe 100644
--- a/doc/apt-get.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-get.8.xml
@@ -545,6 +545,16 @@
      Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Trivial-Only</literal>.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
+     <varlistentry><term><option>--mark-auto</option></term>
+     <listitem><para>
+     After successful installation, mark all freshly installed packages as
+     automatically installed, which will cause each of the packages to be
+     removed when no more manually installed packages depend on this package.
+     This is equally to running <command>apt-mark auto</command> for all
+     installed packages.
+     Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Mark-Auto</literal>.</para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
      <varlistentry><term><option>--no-remove</option></term>
      <listitem><para>If any packages are to be removed apt-get immediately aborts without
      prompting. 
diff --git a/doc/examples/configure-index b/doc/examples/configure-index
index 47715a9e1..9e02f0b13 100644
--- a/doc/examples/configure-index
+++ b/doc/examples/configure-index
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ APT
      Assume-Yes "<BOOL>"; // not as dangerous, but use with care still
      Assume-No "<BOOL>";
      Trivial-Only "<BOOL>";
+     Mark-Auto "<BOOL>";
      Remove "<BOOL>";
      AllowUnauthenticated "<BOOL>"; // skip security
 
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