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Re: A question about `aptitude purge'



On 2009-06-04 18:16 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> I did:
>
>  # aptitude purge mplayer
>
> .  After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer' command,

That's because bash reads the completion code only once, when it starts
up.  Try starting a fresh shell, e.g. with "exec bash".

> and besides the ~/.mplayer directory was still there.

User files are outside of the package management's scope.  It is up to
you to delete or not delete them.

> Does this mean that not *all* the configuration stuff was removed, as supposed
> `aptitude purge' to do?

No, that does not mean it.

Sven


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