Re: reinstalling Nginx & others usin apt from command line

[Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net>]

On 10/10/2013 3:08 PM, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> Le 10.10.2013 20:20, Brad Rogers a écrit :
> > On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:54:57 -0700
> > Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Gregory,
> >
> > > "purge
> > >           purge is identical to remove except that packages are
> > >           removed and
> > >           purged (any configuration files are deleted too)."
> >
> > As has been said, the man page is imprecise.
>
> I wonder if that could justify a bug report? Speaking about that, I have
> no idea about what exactly does the reinstall option: simply remove and
> then install, or purge and then install? If, as I think, it's the first
> option, what is the use for that, since packages should not lose files
> magically?

I'm not sure what the confusion is here.  Sure, it deletes all 
configuration files it knows about.  But then I would NOT expect it to 
delete any user-generated files, configuration or otherwise.  I would 
only expect it to delete what it can restore.

Jerry