On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > It would be nice to be able to load and save the current state of the > > package tree; then you could save the state as a regular user, and re-load > > it as root. > > I'm not sure if we want that; for a multi-user system that would mean > any user can change the state to something the administrator is not > happy with. >
I mean explicitly, i.e. you could save state to some filename and explicitly re-load that filename. Like Import/Export Package List, only for Apt's particular settings (delete/keep/install, eventually the current version being considered). This is useful anyway, aside from the suid thing. Havoc
