ppa-purge

[Jarno Suni]

> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:30 AM, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:

> > Jarno Suni schreef op 29-11-2016 20:11:
> 
>>>  On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 6:44 PM, Jarno Suni 
> <j_suni at 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.
>> 
>> 
>>  If removing Ubuntu components such as 'multiverse' or 
> 'backports' is
>>  supposed to be supported, some user interface changes are inevitable.
> 
> Don't mind me, but I think you're making it too complex.
> 
> It's okay if you just have one standard form, you don't need several 
> alternatives to do the same thing...
> 
> I think it's okay the way it is. Including the name, if my voice should 
> have any meaning here.


You have to be carefull with what to remove:

sudo ppa-purge -s linux.dropbox.com ubuntu/

would remove dropbox, but

sudo ppa-purge -s archive.ubuntu.com ubuntu/

might remove the whole ubuntu system!