Saving Apt selections
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> This is planned... I was just thinking that it should definitely be in
> libapt-pkg though. For the following reasons:
>
> - selections should be shared with the terminal frontend
> - It would be nice to be able to apt-get install --save-only foo bar
> as one thinks of stuff to install, then apt-get pending right before
> you go to bed or something
>
> Anyway, we will have this sooner or later... personally I think it's about
> the most annoying thing about gnome-apt.
>
Jason, do you have any thoughts on how this should be implemented? I'm
starting to fool around with gnome-apt again and this is something I'd
like to play with. Would a simple dpkg --get-selections type of dump be
good enough? Where do you want to put the file?
Havoc
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