Re: Bug#33291: When a package is marked as "purge", apt changes it into "remove"
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
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> > If I want to really get rid of a package, I mark it as "purge" in dselect.
> > This assures me, that there are no conffiles, startup scripts etc. left on
> > my system. But as soon as I choose [I]nstall in dselect's main menu, apt
> > changes all these "purge" marks into "remove" marks. This is very much
>
> This is actually dpkg doing evil. When you remove a package with --remove
> dpkg discards the purge flag. The original intent was to allow the user to
> run APT to remove the packages and then use [R]emove in dselect to do the
> purge operation.
>
> I suppose I will just have to make APT understand purge :|
I suppose if apt (or any other program) says 'dpkg --remove
<packagename>', dpkg marks the package as 'to be removed' and then removes
it, no matter what it was marked for originally. I don't see any evil done
by dpkg there. I'd rather think it's APT giving the wrong commands.
If APT removes all packages that are to be removed, then why not also
purge all packages that are to be purged? That would render [C]onfigure
and [R]emove obsolete, which would be convenient for the user IMHO.
BTW, sorry for the delay in the reaction.
Remco
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