On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Scott Balneaves <sbaln...@legalaid.mb.ca> wrote: > Hello all, > > After a discussion between myself, Ahmuck, and Lns yesterday, wherein > Lns revealed the mysteries of the ".hidden" file to me for hiding things > from Nautilus, I banged together "hide-tool" last night, a brief shell > script that does the following: > > 1) Create '.hidden' files > for /, /usr, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib, and /usr/local/bin. > 2) Allow for overrides within these hidden driectories (for example, in > root, "home" isn't hidden). > 3) fires the hide-tool job off hourly, so that as an administrator adds > or removes packages from the system, the .hidden files are updated. > > There's a man page that comes with it. It's in my ppa. > > https://edge.launchpad.net/~sbalneav/+archive/ppa > > Any questions, let me know. > > Oh, btw, if you remove the package, you'll have to go into the > directories and manually remove the .hidden files.
Maybe in the packages prerm script you can have it remove these? If you were able to track somewhere (/etc/hide-tool or something) what .hidden files had been added then removing only those should be a snap. -Jordan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
