Re: NEVER remove log files without asking
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:04:38PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:43:05PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:27:13PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > Policy mandates such scripts to check, prior to doing *anything*,
> > > whether things they want to start actually do exist on the system. This
> > > should be a non-issue.
> >
> > How is garbage being left behind a "non-issue"? The fact that they don't do
> > anything is irrelevant.
>
> Those sort of "garbage" scripts are configuration files (and usually
> conffiles). They might have been modified, and if they were,
> configuration would be lost if they were deleted, and the package is
> reinstalled later.
>
> They will be deleted on a purge, hopefully along with all other traces
> of the package.
Yes, everyone here knows that. The point is that these, along with
other semi-configuration-files, are left behind on --remove; saying
"if you want logfiles left behind, use --remove instead of --purge"
is ignoring the fact that plenty of other stuff is left behind, too.
--
Glenn Maynard
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