Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages
I moved from WindowsXP when Squeeze was the current release.
In the first year I did *many* installs from scratch to determine what I
wanted in a final system (made much use of preseeding).
I currently have a configuration of Stretch that meets most of my needs.
As the installation was performed using the default Debian installer,
there is a plethora of packages of no interest installed. As some
important packages are not installed by default, apt and Synaptic were
used to install them.
I'm setting out to do an _extremely_ custom *minimal* install of Buster.
The desired inventory shall list *ONLY* top level packages.
[ E.G. if gfortran was purposely installed, the ~dozen packages
installed because they were tagged as depends, recommends, or suggests
wold *NOT* be listed. ]
Is there a suitable tool? [Synaptic's History menu item is closest I've
found].
TIA
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