Re: Deleting unused configuration files

To: John Merchant <john@merchant.on.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Deleting unused configuration files
From: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi.dogguy@pps.jussieu.fr>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:59:30 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 49006722.7070400@pps.jussieu.fr>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 49005B2D.2050800@merchant.on.net>
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John Merchant wrote:
> Hello all, I have a lot of unused configuration files left in /etc from
> removed packages. Is there any way I can automatically remove them all?
> 

All packages flagged « c » by aptitude are deleted packages with
configuration
files still present on the disk.

Another idea (brute force) is to purge all non-installed (or only deleted)
packages :)

> Cheers,
> John
> 
> 

Cheers,

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