> On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 6:16 PM, Jarno Suni <j_s...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 9:11 PM, Jarno Suni
> <j_s...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>> >> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 6:44 PM, Jarno Suni
>> <j_s...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> "debline" form that add-apt-repository supports, and URL
> form
>> that
>>> add-apt-repository supports, too, but that is undocumented, are not
>> currently
>>> supported by ppa-purge.
Oh, the URL form is documented by --help, but not in manual in 14.04, though.
>>
>> If removing Ubuntu components such as 'multiverse' or
>> 'backports' is supposed to be supported, some user interface
> changes are
>> inevitable.
>
>
> I think usage like this could be good:
>
> ppa-purge [options] { [ ppa:<ppaowner>[/<ppaname>] |
> <URL> [ [component] ... ] ] | [component] ... }
>
>
> ppa:* form is reserved strictly for PPAs. Other repositories can be given in
> URL
> form (i.e. http://*). And all given components (such as trusty-proposed) must
> match for the repository to purge. I have created bash completion that works
> pretty well with this syntax.
Actually trusty-proposed is called a distribution in Debian terminology
(https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList). add-apt-repository can add a component
(such as multiverse), but not a distribution for some reason. I decided to
implemented ppa-purge so that it can purge a distribution instead of
component(s). You can remove packages of components by other means (like by
synaptic).
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