Re: Automatically purging non-official packages
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:45:35PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> >> For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed
> >> to remove non official versions of the packages in favor of the ones
> >> available in Debian repositories.
> >
> > Right! As its name says. :) Consider the command "rm" in the same vein.
>
> Sure. I neither let "rm" to do things blindly :-)
The *default action* for rm is "to do things blindly", *unless* you set
the alias to "rm -i".
Are you suggesting ppa-purge should ask: "Are you sure you want to ...?"
by default?
Consider:
http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/38188
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