diff --git a/client/solo/commands/rescue.py b/client/solo/commands/rescue.py
index ba1f8b8c1..1f8aefa1f 100644
--- a/client/solo/commands/rescue.py
+++ b/client/solo/commands/rescue.py
@@ -730,6 +730,25 @@ Tools to rescue the running system.
                 prefix="equo.rescue.spmsync")
             os.close(tmp_fd)
 
+            try:
+                spm_wanted_packages = spm.get_user_selected_packages()
+            except Exception as err:
+                entropy.tools.print_traceback()
+                entropy_client.output(
+                    "%s: %s" % (
+                        darkred(_("Cannot read list of user selected packages")),
+                        err,
+                        ),
+                    level="warning"
+                )
+                spm_wanted_packages = frozenset()
+
+            spm_wanted_map = {}
+            for _spm_wanted_pkg in spm_wanted_packages:
+                _stripped = entropy.dep.dep_getkey(_spm_wanted_pkg)
+                obj = spm_wanted_map.setdefault(_stripped, set())
+                obj.add(_spm_wanted_pkg)
+
             for _spm_package, _spm_package_id in to_be_added:
                 counter += 1
                 entropy_client.output(
@@ -792,8 +811,28 @@ Tools to rescue the running system.
 
                 new_package_id = inst_repo.handlePackage(
                     data, revision = data['revision'])
-                inst_repo.storeInstalledPackage(new_package_id,
-                    etpConst['spmdbid'])
+
+                def _spm_match_installed(x):
+                    try:
+                        return spm.match_installed_package(x)
+                    except KeyError:
+                        pass
+
+                spm_package_key = entropy.dep.dep_getkey(_spm_package)
+                spm_wanted_candidates = spm_wanted_map.get(spm_package_key, set())
+
+                # Avoid calling spm.match_installed_package() which can be
+                # a little slow. Now the list is reduced.
+                spm_wanted_matches = (_spm_match_installed(x)
+                                      for x in spm_wanted_candidates
+                                      if x is not None)
+                if _spm_package in spm_wanted_matches:
+                    source = etpConst['install_sources']['user']
+                else:
+                    source = etpConst['install_sources']['automatic_dependency']
+
+                inst_repo.storeInstalledPackage(
+                    new_package_id, etpConst['spmdbid'], source)
 
             inst_repo.commit()
             try:
diff --git a/lib/entropy/spm/plugins/interfaces/portage_plugin/__init__.py b/lib/entropy/spm/plugins/interfaces/portage_plugin/__init__.py
index ed0ced207..922f7154d 100644
--- a/lib/entropy/spm/plugins/interfaces/portage_plugin/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/entropy/spm/plugins/interfaces/portage_plugin/__init__.py
@@ -1937,6 +1937,29 @@ class PortagePlugin(SpmPlugin):
 
         return list(filter(catfilter, packages))
 
+    def get_user_selected_packages(self, root = None):
+        """
+        Reimplemented from SpmPlugin class.
+        """
+        world_atoms = set()
+
+        with self._PortageWorldSetLocker(self, root = root):
+            world_file = self.get_user_installed_packages_file(root = root)
+            enc = etpConst['conf_encoding']
+
+            try:
+                with codecs.open(world_file, "r", encoding=enc) \
+                        as world_f:
+                    world_atoms |= set((x.strip() for x in \
+                        world_f.readlines() if x.strip()))
+            except (OSError, IOError) as err:
+                if err.errno != errno.ENOENT:
+                    raise self.Error(err)
+            except UnicodeDecodeError as err:
+                raise self.Error("Portage world file is malformed")
+
+        return frozenset(world_atoms)
+
     def get_package_sets(self, builtin_sets):
         """
         Reimplemented from SpmPlugin class.
diff --git a/lib/entropy/spm/plugins/skel.py b/lib/entropy/spm/plugins/skel.py
index 2f49b6af9..5b9d17dfc 100644
--- a/lib/entropy/spm/plugins/skel.py
+++ b/lib/entropy/spm/plugins/skel.py
@@ -589,6 +589,22 @@ class SpmPlugin(Singleton):
         """
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
+    def get_user_selected_packages(self, root = None):
+        """
+        Return installed list of packages that were selected by user as
+        selected (wanted).
+        Packages returned by this function can have a different representation
+        from what e.g. I{get_installed_packages()} returns, that is, no
+        package matching is done for performance.
+
+        @keyword root: specify an alternative root directory "/"
+        @type root: string
+        @return: list of installed packages found
+        @rtype: frozenset
+        @raise entropy.exceptions.SPMError: when something went bad
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
     def get_package_sets(self, builtin_sets):
         """
         Package sets are groups of packages meant to ease user installation and