Hi LW, > > If I wanted to duplicate the packages from one machine to another > > then I'd like the method to not alter the source machine, preserve > > my choices, and that some packages weren't explicitly wanted. > > In other words, duplicate. ... > ...could you explain what you do want to achieve ? Well, I'm not the original OP but I have wondered about how to do this in the past. ‘pacman -Qqe’ lists the packages I've explicitly installed; call that set E. If the dependencies of those refer to a virtual package and I satisfied it in the past on machine A by choosing package P then I don't think that adds P to the explicitly installed set. On machine B, I want to explicitly install package set E and have the choice of P made automatically. I don't want to make P explicitly installed on either machine A or B because it is just a dependency. At every pick-a-package question on B, I could look on A to see how to re-make the same choice as before but that assumes A is available and is a tedious manual procedure. Hope that's clearer. Perhaps I've a faulty assumption early on which makes my problem disappear. -- Cheers, Ralph.
