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The Other Side of Android: My Favorite F-Droid Apps (gardinerbryant.com)
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[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Agree on this. Feel fdroid could attach a unique ID to each package version and then insert and update that text file holding it every time. Kind of like a package lock (Python, nvm, etc.)

Export the file, import on new and it just fetches the necessary versions of apps.