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Re: dependency based boot sequencing



On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:41:18AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 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.

whoosh?

A

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