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Re: apt-get remove <package>



On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:44:24AM -0400, User zos wrote:
> I'm sorry...its been a super crazy night (and I mean ULTRA) and this has
> been bothering me for a while. Is there a specific benefit to not deleting
> this stuff after I have decided that I no longer want something installed
> on my box?

you might need the configuration later on. I know realizing just
after you've purged a package that you should've kept the config
files for next time you need the package isn't very nice.

use --purge.

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