[Aptitude-devel] Bug#665822: introduce user own marker on installed packages

[r.3 at libertysurf.fr]

Package: aptitude
Version:0.6.3-3.2

Hello,

I think aptitude lacks a feature : being able to tell the user what he has installed already (in order to let him do clean up). I think of a feature such as in windows (control panel / add or remove programs), were you can identify easily what you have installed.
the automatic/installed/not installed categories do not tell if a package was there because it was a choice of the distribution, or if it is there because the user installed it.

To do that, Ubuntu.fr provides a nice command on http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/aptitude, though it could be updated :
aptitude search '~i!~M(!~tubuntu-desktop!~tminimal!~tstandard!~tprint-server)(!~n^grub$!~n^linux-!~n^aspell$!~n^openoffice.org-l10n-common$((!~n-fr$!~n-fr-)|~ndoc-fr$))'

Maybe this type of command could be integrated, with something like the following ?
aptitude show ~user

Regards,
William