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by julian-klode 759 days ago
apt-mark showmanual shows you all manually installed packages and apt-mark auto marks stuff as automatically installed.

The list of manually installed packages is effectively the "world".

The new solver takes inspiration from apk in that it marks the world/manually installed packages the root of the dependency problem (hence why they can't be removed by the solver itself, only manually).