Re: [linux@bucksch.org: Bug#101186: purge removes new mail in spool dir]
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:38:15AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Joost Kooij <joost@topaz.mdcc.cx> wrote:
>
> > Regardless of any intents to ever reinstall the package, purging the
> > package is in sofar reversible that one can reinstall the package and
> > put back the configuration. This is all under the control of the user.
>
> That's what remove is for. Purging a package, well, should remove all
> traces of it.
In principle, I do not disagree with that. It is also not what I contested.
I seem to have expressed myself rather unclearly, I apologise.
After purging a package, I can put the package back into its original
pre-purge state _if_ I manually put back the configuration that was
(intentfully) deleted in the purge.
The "if" part is under my control, because I put the configuration in
in the first place, so I should be able to do that again.
Messages sent from remote sites or by random users on my system are not
restored quite so easily.
The main argument I put forward was about erring on the safe side. That
still holds and I will repeat that it is more important than any policy.
Anyway, squid does it too, so policy must be wrong. ;-)
Cheers,
Joost
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