save package selection?

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

hi, is there a way to save the selection of packages (independent of
version numbers) that exist on the system so that the same set of
programs can be conveniently restored or installed on another machine?

sure, i can parse dpkg -l into perl and do my thing that way, but
that's a feature a package management system like dpkg/dselect ought
to have. even crappy-suse comes with that... (redhat doesn't though).

martin

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