Marco Möller wrote: ... > 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.
Debian is fine as long as there is a partition image program that functions when needed. when it was important for me to have this sort of backup and restore of a pristine Debian system it worked well for me. i am now at a spot where i don't need that sort of functionality so i don't do that any more. songbird
