Re: dependency based boot sequencing
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:41:18AM +0900, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> was heard to say:
> 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.
[snip]
> > 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.
True, but aptitude isn't actually doing any package management there
(it could be run as a non-root user). If you have something against it,
I figured maybe just using it to generate a list of packages, to be
processed later with an acceptable tool, might be more palatable.
Daniel
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