Re: requirements for new dselect
In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.970223154224.3200A-100000@cancerous.braincells.com>
you write:
>
>There should be a way to make a list of packages to be installed and feed
>it to the program. For instance whenever I setup a machine, I invariably
>want apache, pico, and pine, and I never want CERN httpd, emacs and elm.
>Instead of having to select and deselct packages each time, I'd keep my
>list and copy it to each new machine which would only install the
>packages I want.
There already is such a feature in dpkg - --get-selections &
--set-selections will do exactly this for you...
>Some lists could come bundled with the tool. "Lean"
>would include only the packages with priority "Required". "Standard-nox"
>would be all the ones with priority "Standard" which didn't need X and
>"Standard-withx" would include the ones which did use X. Or somehing like
>that.
That could be useful, agreed.
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