ppa-purge

[Jarno Suni]

> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 9:11 PM, Jarno Suni <j_suni at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> >>  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.


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.