yeah, "dpkg -l" for all installed, "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" and you won't *have* any out of date packages, so why worry about listing them; as for listing all not-installed packages:
% zegrep -c '^Package: ' unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 3136 That is simply unmanageable as a set of individual itmes! Being able to grep through descriptions and find new things, or just use profiles for base configurations and then explore and find other packages as you find you need them ends up being a lot more practical... > Download AptFind (command apt-find) from Freshmeat.net Or just install it, from unstable: Package: apt-find Version: 0.6.0p1-1 Description: ncurses-based user interface to APT. A graphical/logical representation of the packages is presented to the user for easy installation and deinstallation of packages. (I haven't tried it yet...)
