On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:16:52 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (...) > >>>> In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. >>> >>> My guess is that is highly dependant on user's configuration: the >>> lesser repositories available + basic pinning rules = the higher >>> chances for getting successful results. >> >> That applies to non-Debian repositories but not to PPAs that's probably >> why Ubunical created "apt-add-repository" with which you can add any >> repository including PPAs and VirtualBox to "/etc/apt/sources.d/" along >> with its corresponding gpg key but limited itself to "ppa-purge" rather >> than increasing the complexity of its removal script with >> "apt-purge-repository" (which is what the OP wants to do). > > I don't know how Ubuntu works in this regard (I mean, what are the inners > of their PPA infrastructure) but speaking for Debian and I don't like the > idea of letting a script to remove/downgrade packages/libraries and make > "its best guesses" on how to proceed. > > Although on systems running the stable branch can be less traumatic > because dependencies there are more contained, I'm still very hesitant of > using such a tool unless it's to be run on a system for testing purposes.
If Debian had PPAs, I'd be happy to use ppa-purge. You might hit bugs, like an earlier poster has, but every app has bugs. Although it isn't a bug in apt-get/aptitude's case, they both try to remove a big chunk of the installed packages if, for example, you ask them to remove something that GNOME considers essential. Unlike ppa-purge, they both warn you about what they're about to do. PPAs aren't meant for production boxes - certainly not for servers (I even wonder whether there's anything in them that's X-less) although there are probably many Ubuntu users who use them on their main desktop/laptop - because PPAs are used to install packages that aren't in the official repositories. -- 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/CAOdo=syswo71v_1uz6r7_bbec7s753jcf7c4+m8zlgdzflv...@mail.gmail.com
