"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtu...@vianet.ca> writes: > Here's what I do (I'm on dialup). > > 2. backup to plain text: > selections from /etc including fstab, inittab, networks. > output of sfdisk (hard drive partitions) which can be fed > back to sfdisk to fix a busted partition table > output of aptitude search '~i !~A' which means all installed > packages which are not automatically installed.
Just because a package is automatically installed doesn't mean that it is the choice the package manager would choose. For example many packages depend on www-browser, but which one is automatically installed? You can use aptitude to select the one you want and then remove any other automatically installed one, but how will it know that if you install from that list later? I'm not getting after you about this, because I still don't know the best way to handle this. Most dependencies are a single item, so this isn't a problem in those cases. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
