Anthony Towns wrote: > deborphan might be tweakable to do this. pkg-order could also be useful. > Apt 0.5 now has a python interface, and possibly a perl interface, so > that's probably usable too.
Deborphan is nearly perfect for this. Right now, it just keeps track of whether a package was installed to satisfy a dependancy, or because you really want it. If instead of the y/n question it uses for this, it asked _why_ you want a package, and stored the result, there would be much interesting data to munge. -- see shy jo
