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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 skele_tron@feddit.de to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] mikesailin@lemmy.ml 0 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.

[–] skele_tron@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

Thank you!

[–] iliekturtles@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

aconfmgr may meet your needs. It is billed as a configuration manager for Arch and will track installed packages and changed package files.

[–] skele_tron@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

Guess that will do! Something to log what was installed so i could backtrack instead of formatting ( since i wanted to see what wayland is like, then lets try sway! then some other versioins of wine and so on, i cannot remember what the hell i installed haha )