Option to mark only optical duplicates

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Since Dec 14, 2021.

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Is there a way for samtools markdup to ONLY mark optical duplicates, equivalent to Picard's TAGGING_POLICY=OpticalOnly ? This would be useful for PCR-free data, which is standard for most WGS.

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