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Re: NEVER remove log files without asking



On Thursday 19 August 2004 03:50, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> writes:
> Perhaps life would be improved by having a way to easily discover
> what --purge would remove without actually running it (or reading the
> relevant maintainer script).  You already get this for conffiles,
> which are a subset of the answer; it could be extended to other
> things removed by --purge.

It seems like 'dpkg --dry-run --purge package' would be a great place 
for this to happen. Currently, it just says:

"Would remove or purge package ..."

Which is kind of ... obvious. ;)

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
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