Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-04-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, John Foster wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:49 pm, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > You asked for a suggestion so here it is: > Take all the info you generated along with your skills in perl and using all > of the tools mentioned contrive a WebMin module for those of us who

Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-04-08 Thread John Foster
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:49 pm, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: You asked for a suggestion so here it is: Take all the info you generated along with your skills in perl and using all of the tools mentioned contrive a WebMin module for those of us who are really lazy and don't use; or want to use

Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-04-03 Thread dircha
Alex Malinovich wrote: 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 yo

Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-04-03 Thread Tom Badran
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 12:20 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > 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

Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-04-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 scri

Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-03-31 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'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

Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-03-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 19:49 +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > 'ellow, > > I've recently subscribed to this list as I wanted to let you all know > about a helpful little utility that a friend of mine and I have written. > > It is a Perl script that works out which packages on your system are no

Useful new package management tool

2004-03-31 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ellow, I've recently subscribed to this list as I wanted to let you all know about a helpful little utility that a friend of mine and I have written. It is a Perl script that works out which packages on your system are not being used and can be safely removed. This puts an end to the disk creep