Bug#143236: marked as done (dpkg --deinstall or dpkg --remove ?)
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From: Addis Perez <ciudadlejana@isla.net>
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Subject: dpkg --deinstall or dpkg --remove ?
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:56:33 -0400
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.20 (i386)
The dpkg manpage has two conflicting options: deinstall vs. remove.
Under INFORMATION ABOUT PACKAGES --> PACKAGE SELECTION STATES, one
of the options is deinstall. Being that this is the first option
for uninstalling packages, one may use this without reading a
little more into the manpage.
However, further down the manpage, under ACTIONS, it is instructed
that to remove an installed pagkage, one should use dpkg -r |
--remove, which in reality is the correct way to uninstall a package.
Should a user use dpkg --deinstall, the result will be similar to
this:
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flk@ciudadlejana:~$ sudo dpkg --deinstall <some_package>
dpkg: unknown option --deinstall
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages
[*];
Use dselect for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --licence for copyright licence and lack of warranty (GNU
GPL) [*].
Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less'
or `more' !
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I have verified that this 'bug' has not appeared under the Debian
bug report logs for dpkg.
Please take notice and fix this minor detail in the documentation.
Addis Pérez
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Subject: Re: dpkg --deinstall or dpkg --remove ?
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Addis Perez wrote:
> The dpkg manpage has two conflicting options: deinstall vs. remove.
> Under INFORMATION ABOUT PACKAGES --> PACKAGE SELECTION STATES, one
> of the options is deinstall. Being that this is the first option
> for uninstalling packages, one may use this without reading a
> little more into the manpage.
> However, further down the manpage, under ACTIONS, it is instructed
> that to remove an installed pagkage, one should use dpkg -r |
> --remove, which in reality is the correct way to uninstall a package.
>
> Should a user use dpkg --deinstall, the result will be similar to
> this:
PACKAGE SELECTION STATES describes the internal states of a package. It does
not describe command line options/actions.
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