On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 02:30:26PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: > When a database package is purged, the implication is that the data stored > in the database should also be deleted. Therefore I have added the > instructions to delete the data to postgresql's postrm. > > However, since it is possible to flag whole groups of packages for purging > when using dselect, I feel I ought to protect users against inadvertently > destroying their data - the package can easily be reinstalled, but no-one > else can recreate the data. > > Therefore I have made the postrm script interactive: Afaik msql's postinst has similar statements. This is minimal prompting IMHO. We must not remove such data without request. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / The good thing about standards is / / that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum /
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