Re: Databases and purging
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.
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