Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
I suggest you take a look at this new topic I created: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/unninstall-all-packages-system-except-seleted-ones-possible Your suggestions ideas and help would be very welcome and appreciated :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
vrms is a joke because it's not going to identify all of the non-free things that are there because it doesn't even look at everything in the first place and even the things it does look at are being judged by different criteria.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
I highly doubt it. Different input, different output.
[Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
I have an old partition containing linux mint. Didn't use it since ages but i'm kind of running out of disk space... can I trisquelize linux mint just like ubuntu? They have almost the same repos, afaik. And the version i'm running is rebecca, i.e. trusty . Can I just replace "trusty" with "belenos" and replace the repo url with trisquel's repo?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
Can't really answer, but I suspect Mint will have proprietary packages that trisquelize might not remove. I would recommend running vrms first and trisquelize second. Other than that only you will know which undesired packages you will have installed in the past.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
" The best solution is to nuke the GNU/Linux Mint install and put Trisquel in its place." Agreed. "vrms is a joke" I disagree. vrms does one thing and does it right: identify packages that come from non-free debian repositories. That is a step forward when trying to "clean" a buntu-based system. It's not perfect and people certainly feel offended by the use of rms initials, but other than that, vrms is a good option to remove some stuff from your machine. Far from being perfect anyway.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
Something significant about Mint is that the Mint repositories, unlike Ubuntu's, are not segregated based on whether they're free or non-free. So that necessarily means that vrms won't work correctly on it. (I think I actually tried running vrms on a Mint live CD, and it told me, incorrectly, that the system had no proprietary software on it; but don't quote me on this, because my memory's fuzzy and I might be thinking of a different system.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
"vrms does one thing and does it right: identify packages that come from non-free debian repositories." And that's *ALL* it does. It might (emphasis added) work okay on Debian but you'd figured that anyone enabling their non-free rpeository would know that they're installing packages from it. But, as soon as someone branches out and installs software from some other repository vrms is clueless "That is a step forward when trying to "clean" a buntu-based system." It's made for Debian not buntu. As soon as it's used on a distro other than Debian that's added more non-free packages (but didn't update vrms to know about them) it'll happily tell someone that their system is free of non-free things, and that RMS would be proud, even if that's not the case. So problem #1 is that it doesn't identify all non-free things and people rely on it when it's not accurate. Problem #2 is it claims to be a Virtual RMS but doesn't judge things as he would - i.e. it follows "Debian Free" not "Ubuntu Free" or "Fedora Free" or "FSF Free" and so comes to different conclusions about the packages it DOES know about as a result. So all in all it's a problem best to be avoided.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
Mint==Ubuntu with even more non-free software
