Daily maintenance

[Leif Gregory]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:16:57 -0300
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> That tells you _all_ the packages.  It's not useful for actually
> regenerating a configuration, because it's unaware of the difference
> between manually (the ~M in my script) and automatically installed
> packages.  So if I take that list and install it onto a new system,
> everything is registered as "manually installed", and nothing ever
> gets removed when it's no longer needed.

True. Must have missed the part where you said "so that I can duplicate
this setup on a new install." <grin>

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