Re: NEVER remove log files without asking

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:

> Files created by vi aren't a part of the vi package, any more than the HTTP
> data sent by apache is part of the apache package.  But logfiles are
> "package droppings", like vi crash restore files (I can't remember what
> they're called, those things that get stored to some fiddly directory
> somewhere and annoy me on reboot).  I *would* expect those to get cleaned up
> on package purge.

As I have already said, this is hardly obvious.

I think I might agree that vi crash files should get cleaned up.

But I would not agree that emacs autosave files should get cleaned up.

And the only reason for my different answers is beacuse the vi files
get stored away in a system location, while the emacs ones land in the
users' directories.

Thomas