On 12/27/2014 06:30 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> so here's an example. I do:
> 
> sudo apt-get remove korn-trinity
> 
> and I get a whole list of stuff to autoremove. I've included it after my
> signature. some of this stuff I want to retain.

Using Synaptic, you'd select any you want to keep, go to the Package menu,
and uncheck "Automatically installed".  Or if you prefer, you can use
apt-mark to mark them as manually installed (see man apt-mark).

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