Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

> > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:54 -0900 <gomadtroll@acsalaska.net> wrote:
> >
> > Would be nice to have  a 'snapshot' feature to revert to. I have used aptitude 
> > (dselect) to get close to a standard install, base + standard is not that many 
> > packages, no X.
>
> Yes I agree it would be a very handy feature. What is the debian-user mailing list members thoughts on creating a feature request for such a feature. 

I see no purpose, when you can do this at any time:
COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep ^i | \
       cut -c4-44 > installed.packages.`date +"%Y%M%d-%H%m"`

Since that's obviously a pain to write, put it in an alias.

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