Re: Bug#225999: ITP: debsync -- installed packages synchronization tool

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

* Arnaud Vandyck 

| > What's important here is *having* the _tool_. The fact that it does
| > what you could do in 5 commands is irrelevant. And if you were to
| > write the script yourself, you'd have to test/debug it, etc.
| 
| I don't agree.
| 
| 1° We already have the tools (dpkg, ssh, aptitude)
| 2° If every scripts have to be package, I think we'll have some problems
|    in the distro! Also, note that ssh and aptitude are tools that must
|    be known by the average administrator (and I think your tool is for
|    admins, not users who don't have the right to install anything). And
|    if this admin read some docs about Debian, he'll learn dpkg fast!
| 3° Well, yes, you'll have to test!

I'm hoping that debsync can fulfill something I'm at least have been
looking for for a while:

I want a bunch of hosts to have a set of debs installed.  I don't want
any excess packages removed, but I want this minimum set installed.

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