Re: [RFD]: Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
Adam> My question is why is this nescessary? The pkg created the
Adam> files, but who owns them? The pkg, or the admin of the
Adam> machine?
Adam> If the pkg owns the files, then why doesn't gnome, upon
Adam> purging, do a find on /home, and delete .gnome*/?
/home/* is completely different to /var/log.
/home contains files which belong to individual users.
(or whatever else the system administrator might want to use).
/var/log contains files which are associated with packages.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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