Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2002-12-05 16:57:23 +0000]: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:14:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > ... and none of the remaining pieces of "the-package" are removed. How are you determining that pieces of the package are remaining? They should not be there at that point. > Then there's nothing more to do. The "purge" step only makes a > difference if the package has a post-removal script; it seems that this > one doesn't. I think you meant 'conffiles'? Configuration files such as those in /etc/package.conf are left around unless you purge them. But it applies to more than just /etc/*.conf. For example exim has a crontab entry that runs (doing nothing) unless you purge it if you replace exim with something else but don't purge exim. Bob
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