[lug] Personal 'layer'

[David L. Anselmi]

Scott Rohling wrote:
> Great idea about grabbing the package listing.. (dpkg -l >
> /home/mypackages.lst    or some such thing).

If you use aptitude to track automatically installed packages, it's:

aptitude search ~i | grep -v "^i A"

> I'll stick that in my backup script.  Also like the /home/opt idea as
> many of my apps are in /opt as well.

Are those all 3rd party apps?  Otherwise I'd think you want them in 
/usr/local.

Dave