Re: Removal of logfiles?
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.
>
> Note that the only way you can purge a package is to do it by hand - dselect
> only uses remove.
Is this correct? I had been under the impression that '-' was remove, and
'_' was purge, in the dselect UI.
Jules
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