On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:11:01PM -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote:
> This thread prompted me to play with the apt stuff a bit. Would the
> following be useful?
[snipped]
> The stuff in the Dependencies section could be attacked with sed/cut or the
> like and fed directly to a "dpkg --purge" for a _rea
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 11:47:15PM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:00:55PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules/2.2.12>apt-cache search quake
>
> Cool. Thanks. Now, all we need is a switch to apt or dpkg to remove forward
> dependent packages (so, for
Joey (or anyone else) what would be involved in writing such a beast? I sort
of like perl, and would like to contribute back to debian in some fashion..
(Sorry, not a C coder... I should learn one of these days.. :)
:)
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 11:47:15PM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:00:55PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules/2.2.12>apt-cache search quake
Cool. Thanks. Now, all we need is a switch to apt or dpkg to remove forward
dependent packages (so, for example, one could remove communicator-smotif-407,
and all packages it d
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:55:35PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> apt-apropos quake
Good idea. Does it exist yet? I can find no such command in slink...
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Seth R Arnold wrote:
> the smiley two lines beneath apt-apropos it sure would be nice to have
> such a command. ;)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules/2.2.12>apt-cache search quake
quake2-dm - id's deathmatch maps and skins for Quake 2
xquake - 3d action game, the successor to Doom. (X version)
qua
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:31:31PM -0500, Stephen R. Gore wrote:
> Seth R Arnold wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 11:44:38AM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
> > >
> > > It would also be nice if there was a command that could be used to look
> > > for a
> > > package based on a description (for examp
Seth R Arnold wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 11:44:38AM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
> >
> > It would also be nice if there was a command that could be used to look for
> > a
> > package based on a description (for example, I'd like to quickly find out
> > which package gives me quake, or the rea
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 11:44:38AM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
>
> It would also be nice if there was a command that could be used to look for a
> package based on a description (for example, I'd like to quickly find out
> which package gives me quake, or the realvideo player). I know that I can
>
Scott Barker wrote:
>
> As good as debian's package system is, I can't find any way to find out what
> packages depended upon a package which has been removed. For example, if I
> remove the communicator-smotif package, I'd like to be able to also remove the
> packages it depended upon. I know I c
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