Comment 13 for bug 17297

On a fresh (just installed) edgy, auto-removable list is empty. deborhan -a lists the following:

main/base ubuntu-standard
main/net vsftpd
main/base linux-image-generic
main/base linux-image-2.6.17-7-generic
main/base ubuntu-desktop
main/base ubuntu-minimal
main/misc installation-report

the only thing I installed was vsftpd. the average user will not want to uninstall these, even by mistake, except vsftpd.

> Amusingly, users do want to mass-remove packages they installed once
> in a while. At least I do.

I don't think via using deborphan -a... But I see what you are trying to say I think. You want to see a list of files you installed to clean up the system. For that, I myself would like to see a field in synaptic filters such as "installed by user on top of base".

but I don't think it's a good idea to let synaptic use deborphan -a and give feedback to the user on the basis of its output. it's dangerous at best.