Re: Purging database packages

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:

> >> 3. Should there be policy on this matter for database packages in
> >> particular?

Raul Miller wrote:
>   >I would like to see a way to preemptively indicate that the
>   >data should not be deleted. In a busy environment with several
>   >sysadmins, you want to be able to make such decisions ahead of
>   >time.

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
> This seems a good idea, but it implies a whole new utility whose job
> is to service interactive requests from dpkg scripts.

Does it?

I thought it only implied one bit of configuration information somewhere
under /etc/.

-- 
Raul


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