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

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 27 March 2012 16:07, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The old style tasks have been phased out and replaced by meta-packages
> with names beginning with "task-".  As a result of this it is now
> possible to have the dependencies of a task marked as automatically
> installed and thus most of the clutter in your preferred search
> ("!~tubuntu-desktop" etc.) will no longer be needed.
>
> However, if you had upgraded from an older system it is likely you
> will have to select each task that is installed and mark the
> dependencies before this is useful.
>
> I don't believe it will be worth anyone's effort to attempt to define
> a "distribution/non-distribution" distinction between packages.
>

Otherwise you can use user-tags to track the packages you are
interested in yourself.