On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:41:18AM +0900, Osamu Aoki <os...@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 > > <ckro...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
