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Re: apt, aptitude: By default purge config of removed packages ?



On Mon,28.Sep.09, 16:31:20, Michael wrote:
> On the other hand, this is a continuous upgraded system at least since woody, no fresh install.
> Maybe that's why there was no 00local file at all until now. 

No, this file was created by me, to hold my own additions to the config.

> And the line you told me is nowhere in the other files, too.
> 
> So i created the file, the folder lists now:
> 
> / r: ls -1 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
> 00local
> 00trustcdrom
> 01autoremove
> 70debconf
> 99-localepurge
> 
> Still, at some point in the past, after the apt.conf.d scheme was 
> established, some upgrade of the atpitude package could have created 
> that rule, no ? At least as option via debconf question.

No, the default is to only remove not purge packages (as you already 
noticed) and this is unlikely to change.

Regards,
Andrei
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