Re: Automatically purging non-official packages
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:03:14 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>
>> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs
>>>> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages
>>>> installed from that PPA to the versions available in the official
>>>> archives.
>>>
>>> The only idea scares me :-}
>>
>> Why?
>
> Package managing can be sometimes difficult to deal for an automated
> routine and more that often needs human interaction.
>
> 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.
Indeed, that's its intended use.
> Fine, but reverting ffmpeg from D-M to
> the official version it can be undesiderable or even break based on the
> current pining and priorities (it can leave your system with mixed
> libraries from differenet sources).
If you don't want to revert to the official versions, then you shouldn't
run a script whose purpose is to revert everything to the official
versions. That is, however, not an argument against the usefulness of
the script (or a reason to be scared of it).
Best,
-Nikolaus
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