On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:03:14 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> >>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >>> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages >>> installed from that PPA to the versions available in the official >>> archives. >> >> The only idea scares me :-} > > Why?
Package managing can be sometimes difficult to deal for an automated routine and more that often needs human interaction. For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed to remove non official versions of the packages in favor of the ones available in Debian repositories. Fine, but reverting ffmpeg from D-M to the official version it can be undesiderable or even break based on the current pining and priorities (it can leave your system with mixed libraries from differenet sources). I, personally, don't like playing much with this (packaging and libraries). In the event I have to, I prefer to see and manually cherry pick what to keep or what to upgrade/downgrade case by case. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jjl293$28k$3...@dough.gmane.org
