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Re: Proposal for new architecture support/distribution



On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Stuart Krivis wrote:

> 
> It might even be good to allow dselect to accept package lists. These
> might be available on the net, put together by the users. You'd pick
> the list that seems to fit what you need, then during install there
> would be an option to read in that list from floppy or something. Then
> dselect would only install those things contained in the list.
> 

This we have:

dpkg --get-selections > my_cool_packages

dpkg --set-selections < the_packages_jules_sent_met

Jules

/----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\
|  Jelibean aka  | jules@jellybean.co.uk         |  6 Evelyn Rd	       |
|  Jules aka     | jules@debian.org              |  Richmond, Surrey   |
|  Julian Bean   | jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk        |  TW9 2TF *UK*       |
+----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+
|  War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left.             |
|  When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy.          |
\----------------------------------------------------------------------/


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