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

submitted 5 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] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you could theoretically use something like ansible and manage your stuff there. i dont know if it is really practical on arch and for your use case. theoretically you'd write how your system should be into a playbook and on a fresh install you theoretically just had to run your playbook to get all the Packages and settings you need

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I would go with the Arch specific https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aconfmgr-git instead of ansible, since it can save current system state as well. I use it and love it. See another reply on this post for a slightly deeper discussion on it.