Re: Purging mozilla
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:43:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 20/10/99 David Jardine wrote:
>
> >It appears that mozilla creates a subdirectory in the user's home
> >directory with the user's name, eg /home/fred/fred. I ran
> ><dpkg --purge mozilla> which according to my understanding of the
> >manpages should eliminate all traces of its existence - it didn't
> >say that exactly, but this seemed the most radical option.
> >
> >However, the directories are still there, so:
> > Should I have done it another way?
> > Has mozilla left any other droppings on my system?
> > If there is no other way to clean up, shouldn't there be?
>
> dpkg will not go into user's home directories and start removing
> stuff, that would just be plain rude! :-)
>
Well, yes, I take your point, but...
> there is probably nothing left of mozzilla except for the files in
> anyones home directory who used it, but those files belong to the
> user so it is up to them to delete them. (there may be data they want
> to keep, bookmarks for instance.)
>
...wouldn't it be nicer if I knew what the deleted program had left on
my system?
> now if you are the only user then your the only one with these files
> rm -rf fred should take care of it. (just make sure you point to the
> right fred :-) )
>
I must point out that this causes me no real problems. I'm still at a
very experimental stage with debian and regularly reinstall the whole
thing. Which raises another question: Is it legitimate for me to put
you kind folks to the trouble of helping me with my problems when
nothing is really critical?
Thanks for your help.
David
> Ethan Benson
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