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Re: bug#6110: shred suggestion |
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Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:01:00 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
There hasn't been any activity on this issue for a while now. It
isn't a bug in coreutils nor will it be added as a feature. So I am
going to close it from the bug tracking system with this message.
Feel free to respond and add more information to the ticket as needed.
Bob
Bob Proulx wrote:
> J wrote:
> > I'm a newbie but, Please can you make a GUI for this
> > program. Shredding and such are risky business should a typo have
> > you destroy the wrong partition... Can this be added to Nautilus
> > like Wipe can? Can it be added to do free space as well as files? Or
> > maybe even entire partition?
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> The coreutils isn't a GUI based set of utilities. It is also
> installed on every GNU system. Adding a dependency upon a large and
> complex graphical library would be in conflict with those needs.
> Therefore it isn't the right place to add one.
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> But as you suggested Nautilus may be able to add this functionality to
> their interface. They could call 'shred' on the files you select. It
> is probably something that you could add for yourself as an extension.
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> http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus
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> You might want to suggest this to them.
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> Bob
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