On Thu,30.Apr.09, 20:59:40, J.M.Roth wrote: > I have done more experiments and have come up with these notes for now. > > #BACKUP > dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install"' > packagesNG_installed > aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > packagesNG_autoinstalled I'm curious, why not replace these two with aptitude -F '%p' search '~i!~M' > packagesNG_not_autoinstalled Auto-installed packages are really not important (at least for me) and they might change from one version to the other of some package. Let apt/aptitude figure out what additional packages need to be installed, that's what they were created for. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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