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On  1 Apr, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
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> Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> | On Tuesday 01 of April 2008 00:25:04 Ismael Luceno wrote:
> |> Hi again people!
> |>
> |> I've written a new script, this time I'm almost sure there's nothing
> |> like this in sorcery :P.
> |>
> |> Spellfoster is inspired in debfoster, a debian tool that makes removal
> |> of unwanted applications a trivial task :). It's almost finished, so
> |> take it a look ;)
> | If you clean this up to sorcery standards, it can go into dispel. :)
> |
> | For safety, you should also include the "sustained" list of spells in the
> | keeplist. If someone wants to ignore that precaution, there is already an
> | option for dispel to skip it.
> | And a query after selecting the keeplist asking if the user really
> wants to
> | continue with dispeling the unselect spells: (list).
> |
> | A feature request: there should be an additional custom keeplist (and
> | mechanics for manipulating it), which would always be included into the
> | generated one. That way you wouldn't always have to be careful to select
> | gemrb or any other spells that are legitimatelly orphans on your system.
> 
> IMHO Sorcery would benefit from an additional category for installed
> spells besides orphan, non-orphan, and held. It's implemented in Debian
> already (used by 'apt-get autoremove').
> 
> In SMGL, it would work like this:
> 
> 1) User casts ardour2, which pulls in jack as a dependency. When jack is
> installed, it's marked as "auto-installed" in some list.
> 
> 2) User dispels ardour2, and dispel prompts the user to remove jack as
> it is now an orphan and marked as "auto-installed" (i.e. not
> specifically requested). Dispel may even automatically remove jack, if
> this is configured as default behavior.
> 
> 3) User casts ardour2 again, and jack is again pulled in as an
> "auto-installed" dependency. After this, the user wants to use jack for
> coding his own audio app. He can request sorcery to remove the
> "auto-installed" tag, e.g. 'sorcery icanhas jack' (OK, badly chosen
> option name there).
> 
> 4) User can do what any Debian user nowadays can: dispel autoremove. It
> will weed out every auto-installed orphan, theoretically leaving every
> "wanted" spell in place.
> 
> Something like this could possibly make automatic pruning of unused
> spells much nicer. The fault with orphans has always been that it
> doesn't discriminate between pulled-in dependencies and spells which are
> specifically cast (i.e. many useful front-end programs are always
> orphans according to this logic).
> 
> Juuso
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There is a feature in SuSE's YaST which behaves in exactly the same way.
I liked that feature a lot.

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Ethan Grammatikidis

16:32:10 <+flux_control> git blame "struct filled with hex" && shoot_on_sight