Ok, after reading the various comments and doing experiments it seems obvious that this "bug" is caused by the install process not having the appropriate "root" meta-packages that will result in all the appropriate installed packages not being categorised as "Manual".
Basically someone at Ubuntu need to create a overall meta-package for each flavour of Ubuntu (that may/may not appear in the "Installed (manual)" category) that includes all the other meta-packages etc that are installed by default. When that is done I expect all we will then see in the "Installed (manual)" category are packages (and dependencies) that the user has installed manually - just like it is supposed to do. I have reduced the list in my 10.04 system by manually marking most packages as "Automatically installed" in Synaptic - with the exceptions of packages listed in post #5. Basically you must leave any installed meta-package as Manual else all the installed packages inside these meta-packages will appear in the "auto-removable" list when set to "Automatically installed". -- fresh Ubuntu install marks all packages as manually installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424643 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
