On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:15:41PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > There is no pristine state for Debian. > > There should be, even if this "pristine state" is but a list of packages > at the moment of the first boot.
But that set is NOT the same for everyone. The installer selects some based on the hardware that it discovers during the installation, and you select some in the task selection menu. Also, there are several different installer images, including some that are meant to be used as live, and some that have non-free firmware packages. If *you*, the one person on the planet who wants this, would like to achieve your goal, what you can do is get a snapshot of *your* packages immediately after the installation, by running dpkg --get-selections > /root/initial-packages Just hold on to that file, and it will allow you to return to this state on the same machine, or conceivably even a different machine. If on the other hand your real goal is not to achieve package reduction, but instead to *complain* about Debian, well, you've already achieved it. If your real goal is not just to complain about Debian, but rather, to make Debian *change* something arbitrary, just so that you feel powerful, well, good luck with that.
