On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 08:36:45AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > I really don't have much sympathy here. A directory named > "/var/log/foo", created by the "foo" package, is pretty obviously not > a place to put files you want around permanently. I agree completely. Leaving cruft around after a purge is a bad idea, and seems very, very unclean. 'Remove' is a different operation, with a different implication. > If enough people disagree with this, then we need to change policy so > that NO log files are to be removed. I hope that this does not happen. 'Purge' should mean what it says. If you have important data that's tied to a package, back it up before you purge the package! -- Mason Loring Bliss (( "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us )) build their nest with fragments dropped https://bliss.dyndns.org/ (( from day's caravan." - Rabindranath Tagore
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