a way to force a set of packages on a machine?

[Reinhard Tartler]

Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at cc.hut.fi> writes:

>    I'm trying to set up a mechanism which would force a set of packages on 
> a machine, so that extra packages are removed if they are not on the list 
> and new ones get installed. The motivation for this is to force the users 
> (which might have local sudo-power) a fixed set of packages and to keep 
> them from installing extra packages which might break something or leave 
> cruft behind. The other use is to centrally manage package removals from a 
> single place, no need to dpkg -r remotely or anything.

Have a look at the pkgsync package.

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