Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes: > Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > As a last resort, if we can not agree... But I want the package gone, that's > > why I do a purge... I don't nessesary want the log files gone. > > It's quite simple. If you want the package gone, you do a remove. If you > want the package, plus logfiles, modified conffiles, and any other junk it > may have dumped on your disk gone, you do a purge. This is why we have two > different levels of package removal. > > Deleting modified conffiles is far more dangerous than deleting log files. > Modified conffiles may represnt days of work. We still remove them on puge, > because that's what purge is for. Just as rm -rf doesn't prompt you, neither > should purge - this is unix. Hmmm... When put in that perspective, I agree... (I didn't know about the 'remove' thingie, I just find the purge option when I was looking for it the first time, and then never bothered to search again... :) --purge removes the whole lot. --remove (?) does not remove conffiles and logs, databases and such... Fine by me. (boy, my opinions turn quicky today, aren't they... :) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Turbo __ _ Debian GNU Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just ^^^^^ / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ selective about who its friends are / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / papadoc.nocrew.org _ /// / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Turbo Fredriksson turbo@tripnet.se \\\/ \____/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ PGP#788CD1A9 www5.tripnet.se/~turbo ------- PGP: B7 92 93 0E 06 94 D6 22 98 1F 0B 5B FE 33 A1 0B --------- -- explosion radar Waco, Texas plutonium Nazi class struggle cryptographic Ft. Bragg Uzi Kennedy arrangements smuggle Qaddafi AK-47 Ft. Meade
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