system rebuild preparation
Does some way exist using debian tools to get a list of package names
stripped of version information where all package names in that list have
no form of parent by recommended dependencies or suggested dependencies?
If I can build and maintain that kind of list in the future it should be
possible to install those packages with recommended packages and rebuild
the system using a compact packages list. The closest I've been able to
come to this was something like: # apt-cache dumpavail | grep -i
"package:" >packages.txt I suppose I could strip package: off with sed but
I'll have every package installed on the system which is more than is
needed.
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