2008/11/3 Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> To add my own $ o.o2, I'd very much like to see a tool or Synaptic
> feature which tells me about the differences between a standard
> install and the current set of installed packages. One can purge
> package by package until {Synaptic, apt-get,...} wants to remove the
> ubuntu-desktop meta-package, but this is tedious, very tedious.
> Perhaps this exists already, but I didn't notice yet.
>

Indeed, I'd like a "revert to standard packages" option which removes
absolutely anything that was added post-install. I'd suspect this
would be faster than a reinstall to get a machine back to some level
of normality. It could even be included as part of the recovery mode.

Cheers,
Al.

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