hide-tool 0.1 in my ppa

[Jordan Mantha]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Scott Balneaves
<sbalneav at 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