I suspect that the package maintainers neglected the full purging script. This seems to be the case with a number of packages that I have encountered. They either do not fully remove the binaries, libraries, and documentation, or else they do not remove menu entries, /etc/foo, and especially entries in /etc/alternatives. You should probably file a bug report against the package, and it should get fixed quickly and easily enough. I assume that maintaining a package is a sometimes difficult and sometimes tedious process, so something like the configuration removal/purging script could be easily overlooked. On Friday 22 June 2007 8:32 am, Torok Balint wrote: > Hello! > > I am not sure, but I thought when using apt-get remove --purge > <some_package> that it will remove EVERY file taht the given package have > installed. Well, I have installed the packages apache and apache-doc, and > then purged them. But the /usr/share/apache is still there. Then I > installed apache2 and apache2-doc, and almost immediatly purged them too, > but the directories /usr/share/apache2, /usr/share/doc/apache2, > /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc are still there with some files in them. > Something similar happened when installing/purging postgres too. Is this > the right behavior of apt-get? If it is then what should I do to remove > _ALL_ files that some package have installed? > > Balint > > 15% KEDVEZMÉNY minden PLASZTIKAI MŰTÉTRE az Aesthetica orvosi központban! > Klikk > ide!http://www.webdesign.hu/aesthetica/flash_microsite/?id=9;p_code=2079 -- Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> Location: GA, USA Web: http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com GnuPG Public Key: 4DD0A9A6 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net
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