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Making a "snapshot" of a fresh install so i know what to remove yrs later? (feddit.de)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Instead of nuking a partition and starting from scratch, is there a saner way to clean the system and slim it down?

Im resorting to listing explicitly installed packages and trying to write down what catches my eye that i dont use, or i wanted to try then forgot.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At the time you first install the system do: "yay -Qqe >newinstalls.txt" which will create a list of installed packages. Then later you can do it again but to another file: "yay -Qqe >nowinstalls.txt". Then do: "diff newinstalls.txt nowinstalls.txt" which will give you a list of the differences between the two.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you!