aptitude makes me happy

aptitude --schedule-only --purge-unused markauto '!~v ~i !~E'

aptitude --schedule-only unmarkauto '!~v ~i ~E'
aptitude --schedule-only hold "!~v ~i ~E"
aptitude --schedule-only unhold "!~v ~i ~E"

for i in libc6 libc-bin libgcc libstdc kmod udev; do
        aptitude --schedule-only unmarkauto "!~v ~i ~n^$i"
        aptitude --schedule-only hold "!~v ~i ~n^$i"
        aptitude --schedule-only unhold "!~v ~i ~n^$i"
done

for i in ifupdown netbase net-tools isc-dhcp iproute iptables iputils-ping; do
        aptitude --schedule-only unmarkauto "!~v ~i ~n^$i"
        aptitude --schedule-only hold "!~v ~i ~n^$i"
        aptitude --schedule-only unhold "!~v ~i ~n^$i"
done

for i in rsyslog logrotate debconf dmidecode aptitude wget nano mawk; do
        aptitude --schedule-only unmarkauto "!~v ~i ~n^$i"
        aptitude --schedule-only hold "!~v ~i ~n^$i"
        aptitude --schedule-only unhold "!~v ~i ~n^$i"
done