On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 2:32 PM Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> wrote:
I used to maintain a small fleet of RedHat servers, and had a couple of
scripts for package comparison:

Thanks for the reply. 

I took a closer look at the use cases on my laptop and my workstation and decided against keeping them sync'd.   While it is a headache to have them unsync'd and have to manually transfer files and individually install things, the use cases are just different enough that it doesn't work to keep them entirely sync'd.   At this point in time, anyway.

Should I revisit the need to keep 2 computer sync'd, I'll refer to the advice in your post.