Proposal: pip freeze --no-auto-installs to list all the packages I installed, but not their dependencies

[avinassh]

If I do pip install django and do pip freeze it will list django and also all the dependencies. However it would be nice to list only the packages I installed (telling explicitly to pip), without listing their dependencies.

something like pip freeze --no-auto-installs may be?

Let's say, if you install django package, two other dependencies, say django-dep1 and django-dep2 are also get installed.

Case 1:

$ pip install django
...
$ pip freeze
 django == 1.8
 django-dep1 == 1.3
 django-dep2 == 0.1.2
...
$ pip freeze --no-auto-installs
  django == 1.8

Case 2:

$ pip install django django-dep1
...
$ pip freeze 
 django == 1.8
 django-dep1 == 1.3
 django-dep2 == 0.1.2
...
$ pip freeze --no-auto-installs
 django == 1.8
 django-dep1 == 1.3

[pfmoore]

Unfortunately, that information isn't available. PEP 376 proposes a REQUESTED file in the dist-info directory that records whether a distribution was installed by direct user request, but to my knowledge, no installer actually implements this feature.

[msabramo]

Would #1946 be useful for your use case?

[dstufft]

Closing this, pip does not track this information so we can't expose it, and I believe the problem being solved here would be better solved using pip-compile from pip-tools.