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Re: Databases and purging



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.

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