The file ‘/etc/cpt/base’ can be used in order to define the base to the package manager. Base packages are the packages that receive special treatment by utilities such as ‘cpt-reset’, and ‘cpt-orphans’.
# This file defines the base packages of the system. You can add or remove # package names in order to redefine the base. This file will be used by # cpt-orphans and cpt-reset. If this file doesn't exist on /etc/cpt/base, both # of the tools will assume that there is no defined base, so use with caution. baselayout binutils byacc busybox bzip2 ca-certificates curl flex gcc git rsync gzip cpt bearssl linux-headers m4 make musl pkgconf xz zlib