Thank you 'apt-mark showmanual' is useful. Even better using synaptic you can the click the `Installed (manual)` status filter. Still not as good as something

Thank you 'apt-mark showmanual' is useful. Even better using synaptic you can the click the `Installed (manual)` status filter. Still not as good as something like npm's `package.json` where it's a human edited list of packages you want installed and it's in the order that you added them in (if you ran `npm install $package-name`). Which is nice when you want to remove one you don't need anymore. I wonder if it's possible hack a declarative package manger into a Debian system. Like a wrapper around apt that can do all of this.