> One thing which springs to mind, and I think would make
> a nifty feature, is if apt and/or dpkg would make an entry of
> some kind in some file/directory in /usr/doc which actually
> listed all the packages installed on the machine, and
dpkg --get-selections | awk '{if ($2=="install") print $1}' > /some/file
randolph
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