[Distutils] tracking requested vs dependency installs in PEP 376 metadata

[Carl Meyer]

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Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
> Debian's Apt has this capability, see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageDependencyManagement . It keeps a
> separate file to track the manually installed packages, and the flag
> is named "Auto-Installed". REQUIRED is an ambiguous name -- is it
> required by other packages, or wanted by user for any reason (and that
> is the case)?

I agree that the name is not ideal. Perhaps naming the file
AUTO_INSTALLED, and flipping the semantics (so the presence of the file
allows it to be considered orphaned) would be better.

Carl
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