Bug#85674: apt wishlist
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:06:30AM -0500, Adrian wrote:
> I thought it would be nice if when installing with apt we could assign a
> "session" name. Then later we could remove all applications +installed when
> "session" was created. As an example tonight I wanted to install task-kde
> which has something like 54 dependencies. If in a +week I didn't want KDE
> I'd have to track down all 54 install packages and remove them manually.
> There are ways to record what apt installs, +but creating such lists manually
> each time would be a pain.
It isn't too much of a pain to do this manually; use the -u option to apt-get
and cut and paste (or |tee) the result into a file. You can then later pipe
the list of packages into an 'xargs apt-get --purge remove' or similar.
You could also record the output of 'apt-get -s <blah>'.
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- mdz
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