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Usage of Mezzotint as follows:

Usage: mezzotint [OPTIONS] [FILTERS]

Options

The following options are available:

-x, --exe <exe>: Specify path to an executable which needs to be preserved
-p, --profile <profile>: Profile, describing whole setup
-k, --pkgs <packages>: Comma-separated list of packages to account
-i, --invert: Invert filters behaviour
-t, --dry-run: Do not remove anything, only display what will be removed
-a, --autodeps <mode>: Auto-add package dependencies. NOTE: This can increase the size, but might not always be useful Default value is set to none. Other possible values: free, clean, tight and default none.
-r, --root <root>: Root filesystem, e.g. mountpoint of an image
-c, --copy <copy>: Collect all library dependencies of a target executable, and copy everything to a specified directory.

Filters are used to set what kind of data type needs to be filtered out, i.e. removed from the target: