Re: Removal of logfiles?
- To: paulwade@greenbush.com, Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
- Cc: turbo@tripnet.se, Debian devel mailinglist <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>, Debian Policy <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Removal of logfiles?
- From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 07:48:32 -0400
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19980725074832.41589@test.legislate.com>
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- In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980725071553.16613A-100000@ns1.greenbush.com>; from paulwade@greenbush.com on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:43:53AM -0400
- References: <[🔎] 19980725105733.J15516@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE> <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980725071553.16613A-100000@ns1.greenbush.com>
paulwade@greenbush.com <paulwade@greenbush.com> wrote:
> A few weeks ago I was running dselect via telnet and the remote machine
> got disconnected at exactly the wrong time. When I reconnected, I had to
> purge and reinstall a package to finish the upgrade. This is a situation
> where I would not want the logfiles purged.
>
> However - I do like a clean house. If removing/purging packages generated
> 'reminder' email (directory /usr/lib/foo not empty so not removed), I
> would never complain about that.
A reminder email won't necessarily work. Even if you had a dependency
on mail transport agent, you can uninstall (which means dependencies
don't matter any more) then later purge.
A question in the postrm would be more useful.
--
Raul
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