On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:19:43PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:32:19AM -0500, Juan Alvarez wrote: > > > your question its similar to: > > > > dpkg --purge bash, > > > > remove .bash_profile in the user home directory? oviously not (IMHO) > > This is not a similar situation, as .bash_profile is not created by the > package installation process. In this case, the database is created by the > maintainer scripts. Generally, this kind of thing should be cleaned up when > the package is purged, but since sometimes this data is valuable, some > packages ask before removing. I think this its a best interpretation than my interpretation. -- Juan Alvarez Fluid Signal S.A. mailto:jalvarez@fluidsignal.com http://www.fluidsignal.com/ Key fingerprint: 15C4 0986 A174 862A B607 8EEA 934F 8649 07E2 EA40
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