Anthony DeRobertis writes ("Re: conffile purging and maintainer scripts"):
> 5. Decide you'd rather keep locally installed FOO, purge Debian FOO package.
DDTT
> Solution to this one is that admins should follow the FHS and put their
> config files in /etc/local/ :-D
No, the solution is not to purge something if you want to keep its
configuration !
Ian.