Re: reinstalling Nginx & others usin apt from command line

[berenger.morel@neutralite.org]

Le 10.10.2013 19:54, Gregory Nowak a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 06:21:55PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
> Hello Brad,
>
> > Not entirely true;  Any package that has configuration 
> > files/directories
> > in user space will have those left even after an apt-get(1) purge.  
> > So,
> > to be sure, one has to delete those as well.
>
> $ man 1 apt-get
> No manual entry for apt-get in section 1
> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not 
> available.
>
> The apt-get(8) man page says:
>
> "purge
>            purge is identical to remove except that packages are
>            removed and
>            purged (any configuration files are deleted too)."
>
> Greg

Then the man is not precise enough. Try to install a random package 
with userspace settings, like, say, a game. Change it's settings, purge 
it from the system, and reinstall it. The settings will not change.

Purge only removes configuration files contained in the package, so, 
/etc ones.