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[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le jeudi 10 juin 2010 à 10:12 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit :
> Why would you ask USC for this list? Why not ask apt or aptdaemon
> directly, something like "Give me a list of all installed packages that
> aren't dependencies of ubuntu-desktop".
I guess the idea is to get a minimal list of packages the user wants to
install on other computers. Excluding dependencies makes the list much
shorter and more human-readable, plus it is more future-proof if
dependencies change: only install the wanted application, and all its
dependencies.

But one could ask for all installed packages that are neither a
dependency of ubuntu-desktop nor automatically installed. Since this tag
already exists (used by e.g. apt-get autoremove), it can really help
here.


Regards