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Re:Pop OS 20.04 LTS by e12e on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:45PM (#23037119)
> I wish there was a straightforward way to take the diff

I suppose booting the live image and dumping packages to a file, then diffing that might be one approach?

(dpkg --get-selections)

You might also want to archive all of /etc, and compare - but that might introduce too much noise.

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Re:Pop OS 20.04 LTS by joombaga on Friday May 01, 2020 @12:28AM (#23039137)
Would you expect the list of packages on the live image to be the same as a new install (sans drivers)?
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Re:Pop OS 20.04 LTS by e12e on Friday May 01, 2020 @11:35AM (#23043078)
Yes, mostly. Or put another way - the live system should be functional and show off the best parts of the "spin" so core packages should be similar.
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