why the difference between two identical laptops?

[Preston Boyington <preston.lists@gmail.com>]

alright folks, give me some ideas as to why there are differences
between these two laptops.

i loaded Debian on my first laptop, changed my sources to my favorite
ones, installed all the programs and codecs i could think of that i
might want.

then i did the ol':
	dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt

i then loaded a base Debian install on my second laptop, changed the
sources like on my first laptop, and proceeded to run:
	apt-get update
	dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt
	apt-get dselect-upgrade

everything loaded just fine, except i notice that there are differences
in things like my Gnome icon for battery/charging/plug.  it's different
than my first laptop.  also after an update last night on the second
laptop i lost a desktop shortcut to the /share partition that was there
initially.  (i haven't updated the first laptop to see if the same thing
will happen.)

the Gnome versions should be the same (2.14.3 i think), so why the minor
discrepancies?  they are not "show stoppers" by any means, i am just
curious.

thanks,
preston