(Moving this diverged thread from debian-private.) Adam Heath wrote: > > Is the place for this kind of stuff not in the selection database of > > dpkg ? > > No. > > dpkg is a backend tool. Only the frontend can know whether a user picked > something, or a dependant was picked automatically. It would be useful for frontends to be able to communicate that information to one-another. It would be useful for that information to be readily available outside frontends, as in dpkg -s output. It would be useful for that information to be stored in a single place with all the other package state information in a well-documented format, and backed up along with it in /var/backups, and so on. I hope that you can be persuaded to reconsider. -- see shy jo
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