On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 07:57:13PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:

> Optionally add '| grep -Ev "pkg1|pkg2|pkg3..."' after the sed but
> before the close-parenthesis if you want to exclude particular
> packages from being re-installed.

personally, i'd exclude at least '^lib' so that lib packages are marked
as auto-installed by apt rather than manually installed...when they are
obsoleted by future upgrades they can then be removed automatically with
'apt-get --purge autoremove'

craig

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