On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:35, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > 'ellow, > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 20:02, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > It's always good to see more new tools for Debian. But have you checked > > out deborphan at all? It does pretty much the same thing that your > > script does. If your script has advantages over the functions provided > > by deborphan, I'd be very interested to hear them. If you're just > > re-inventing the wheel for your own amusement, then kudos to you. :) I > > did the same thing when I wrote a debian mirroring script that basically > > does the same thing as debmirror only using rsync. :) > > Well... ours /does/ take up less disk space :-). > > I had no idea about deborphan before; will have to investigate it more > fully. It seems very useful, though. Thanks for letting me know about > it. > > There is another debian-related script at my site. It simply looks for > packages you've removed but not purged and gives you the chance to purge > them. OK; I'm going to brace myself for the news that this has been > done before too :-).
Well, if it HAS already been done I don't know about it. It wouldn't be hard to do it just from a command line, but a script to handle it would be nice IMO. Just make sure it shows which packages would be purged and asks for confirmation BEFORE it actually purges them... :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
