Packages added by the dependency solver in order to resolve a user's request, are marked as having been automatically installed. They may later be removed, if no more manually installed packages depend on them (e.g. by zypper remove --clean-deps).
However things may go haywire. Automatically installed packages may turn out to be useful, and you may want to exclude them from any automatic cleanup. And vice versa.
For this you need to be able to inspect and manipulate a packages 'autoinstalled' property. This is what this project is going to provide.
Zypper search/info command output should distinguish between 'automatically' installed packages and those requested by the user, e.g. by using 'i' for automatically installed and 'I' for user requested packages.
2 new commands markauto/unmarkauto shall allow to change an installed packages 'autoinstalled' property.
Ihis is IMO the prerequisite if we want to provide more automatic cleanup commands.
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