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paul DOT hermeneutic AT gmail DOT com wrote:

> Perhaps you or someone is already doing this, so my suggestion may be
> moot.  For each package, could the package name be prefixed by an
> operator to indicate what action to take?
> 
> +  install  <default, assumes install if no operator specified as is
> done currently>
> -  uninstall
> ~  reinstall
> ^  source
> 
> --packages curl,-apache,+apache2,+apache2-devel,~bind,^httptunnel
> 
> This line would indicate:
> 
> install curl, uninstall apache, install apache2 and apache2-devel,
> reinstall bind, get source for httptunnel

Indeed, that _would_ be easier than doing a fresh install with
everything but apache :-)

Ralph


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