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Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package fi
From: |
Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files? |
Date: |
Sun, 18 May 2008 10:46:31 +0930 |
On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 02:04 -0400, Bake Timmons wrote:
> When I tried to install a package recently, a non-free package was
> suggested to me. This compelled me to write a script that filters out
> from "Suggests:" and "Recommends:" lines any package that is not
> a main or universe "Package:" or "Provides:". Here is an excerpt from
> a diff between the current gNS and my filtered version:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> What the deleted package names all have in common is that they have no
> installation candidate. Non-free packages are a strict subset of such
> files.
Nice work.
Just wondering - what is getting filtered exactly?
kk
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Karl Goetz,
Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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- [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Bake Timmons, 2008/05/17
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Sam Geeraerts, 2008/05/17
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?,
Karl Goetz <=
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Bake Timmons, 2008/05/17
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Karl Goetz, 2008/05/18
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Bake Timmons, 2008/05/18
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Karl Goetz, 2008/05/18
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Bake Timmons, 2008/05/18
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Karl Goetz, 2008/05/18
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Karl Goetz, 2008/05/18
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?, Brian Brazil, 2008/05/18