Re: Automatically purging non-official packages
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Mark Blakeney
<mark.blakeney@bullet-systems.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well.
>
> About 2 months ago I added a ppa to my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop, but didn't
> like it so immediately just did a "ppa-purge" on that ppa which
> proceeded to remove *every* X/gui/video based package. I.e. it
> effectively turned my ubuntu desktop into ubuntu server with just a
> terminal login prompt.
>
> I will be much more careful with ppa-purge from now on!
Maybe they should add a "confirm" prompt. Have you filed a bug report?
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