Bug#767891: apt: Provide ability to manually mark packages as "essential"

[Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>]

On 3 November 2014 20:22, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
> A simple way to achieve what you want is to create a local dummy
> package that depends on the packages you want and is
> "Essential: yes" or "Important: yes". Important being preferred, since
> it has less restrictions on installation ordering.

Yeah, I've done that before (and the equivs package is helpful there).
But it's two somewhat complicated steps (build a package, install a
local package), for something that seems more like it should be a
simple configuration step ("these packages are important to me: ...").

Cheers,
aj