Installed Software Query

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 12:26 +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
> 
> and this installs the packages from the list:
> 
>   dpkg --get-selections < installed_software.txt && sudo apt-get
> dselect-upgrade

This, however, poses the problem that from then on, APT will regard all
packages as "manually installed", as opposed to some being installed as
a dependency by some other package. This will adversely affect the
automatic housekeeping, as packages that are not really needed (because
nothing depends on them, say, after you removed some packages by hand)
are not going to be automatically removed.

Unfortunately I don't know a solution to this problem. If anyone knows,
please post, thanks.