On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:13:45PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:35:18PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > Package: menu
> > Version: 2.1.5-6
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > I only user ~/.menu temporarily to test things. When I'm done
> > testing, I'd like to be able to run something like "update-menus
> > --remove" to suppress those files that were created, instead of
> > hunting them by hand.
>
> Hello Yann,
>
> Are you still interested by this feature ?
Well, for when testing menu modifications, yes - but I do not plan to
do that in the short term :)
> I have a patch that implement it (with some caveats).
> This patch add a --remove option to update-menus.
> This cause update-menus to call the menu method with --remove.
> install-menu --remove will run the command in the config option
> removemenu.
> For example:
> removemenu="test -d " prefix() " && find " prefix() " -type f -exec rm {} \\;"
>
> The problem is that currently no menu-methods provide such
> config options.
>
> Do you think there are situations where install-menu could be smart
> enough to remove the menu without the need for removemenu ?
There are quite a number of menu-methods specifying a fixed name for
"genmenu". Couldn't that be used to tell what needs to be removed ?
Best regards,
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