Re: A question about `aptitude purge'

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I did:
> 
>  # aptitude purge mplayer
> 
> .  After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer' command,
> and besides the ~/.mplayer directory was still there.
> 
> Does this mean that not *all* the configuration stuff was removed, as supposed
> `aptitude purge' to do?

All _global_ system configuration was removed (residing in /etc). Debian
(or aptitude in this case) will *never* remove anything from your /home.

You should do something like 'rm -rf .mplayer' yourself (or move the
folder to the trash, or ...)

Johannes