Re: dependency based boot sequencing
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:54:24AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:53:06PM -0400, Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com> was heard to say:
> > Thanks for that suggestion but I don't use aptitude..I use apt, dpkg, and
> > smartpm.
> >
> > dpkg -P <package> works but it would seem each package must be listed
> > seperately. Is there a command that gets all the unpurged stuff in one go,
> > like your suggestion above with apititude?
>
> You could always try...
>
> aptitude --disable-columns -F '%p' search '~c' | xargs dpkg --purge
>
> ;-)
What is the advantage of above over
aptitude purge '~c'
After all we use nice tool called aptitude :-)
Unless some --force option is used with dpkg, they do the same.
Osamu
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