feature request: list certain subsets of installed packages

[Jarno Suni]

Currently 'apt list' can list
--installed
--manual-installed
--upgradeable
packages, but it would be nice, if it could list
--auto-installed
--auto-removable
--local
These can be listed by grepping the output of 'apt list --installed' but having direct options would be more user friendly and can you trust the output format to retain anyway?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: apt 1.6.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-64.73-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-64-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Sep 19 12:13:25 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-07-08 (72 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Starting in eoan, you can

apt list ?automatic
apt list ?garbage
apt list ?obsolete

See apt-patterns(7) for the patterns supported. More patterns coming in next release, some patterns might have bugs.