On 01.06.20 04:41, emetib wrote:
this has been an interesting topic, so what the hell, here's my two cents.
for my vm's, i have a list off packages that i install as soon as the
minimum/base install and reboot is done. 4 vm's, testing, stable, centos7,
opensuse. i have no gui's on these only cli, just need to know how to
configure things for other os's than debian and it becomes a simple cut and
paste to get a system to be at what i need.
have a home partition, not just a home dir, and back it up often with a
timestamp on it, and do a --get-selections and dump it to a file that you back
up also. also doing that is an easy way to compare what was installed and what
is now installed.
keep sensitive config files in a spot that you know is going to be backed up or
on your home partition so they aren't overwritten with a new install.
there was a suggestion about using a live distro to make a back up right away,
never done it before, yet this is a great idea.
i believe that someone (smarter than me) could write a simple script to put all
user installed programs into a file and then reinstall them after a
full-reinstall.
i.e.
bash_install_script.sh
check if su
add package to list
continue with the install
This is almost exactly what I am also doing.
The problem remains to simply remove a couple of packages without having
to go for a full blown system reinstall and all the necessary
requirements for organizing it well. As there is a package manager, it
is obviously a straight forward logic to expect it to do this job,
because this is exactly what a package manager is expected to manage.
All other suggestions which have been brought up in the thread are
workarounds for filling the gap where the package manager is not full
featured.
The short answer to this thread is that unfortunately Debian is not
prepared with a simple solution for this simple task, but sophisticated
workarounds are needed.
