cloning a desktop to a notebook

["Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <user=42@nabble.blu.org>]

 I'm building two new work systems; installing Kubuntu on 
A) a desktop and 
B) a notebook. 

Both are i386 so there are no architecture differences.  There are of 
course differences in RAM, and disk space.  However, I'm installing 
binary packages. 

The desktop is pretty much done.  I started building the notebook 
(meaning point and click through the package manager).  Rather than 
try to chase down all the software I'd like to install, I'd rather 
just clone the desktop system.  I figured the most straightforward way 
to install all the packages that are on system A onto system B is to 
just list the installed packages and feed that into a apt-get install 

system A 
dpkg-query -l|cut -d ' ' -f 3 |xargs echo -n > package-list.txt 

system B 
sudo apt-get install -f package-list.txt 

Any better approaches?  Any reasons this will blown up in my face? 

Thanks, 

-- Greg 

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