Re: [RFD]: Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.
- To: Brock Rozen <brozen@torah.org>
- Cc: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>, debian-policy@lists.debian.org, recipient list not shown: ;
- Subject: Re: [RFD]: Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.
- From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 00:18:50 +0000
- Message-id: <20000201001850.C1523@polya>
- In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0002010024540.22996-100000@rina.torah.org>; from brozen@torah.org on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:44:11AM +0200
- References: <20000130142853.C5231@molehole> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0002010024540.22996-100000@rina.torah.org>
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:44:11AM +0200, Brock Rozen wrote:
> If I understand correctly, remove removes the binaries. Leaves docs, etc.
>
> Right?
No. Remove removes everything which is replaceable, that is,
everything which appears in the original .deb except for files listed
as conffiles. It also does whateven is specified in the {pre,post}rm.
Julian
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