Bug#146167: apt: No way to purge record of package without purging config files
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
It would very useful if apt had a facility to purge packages _from the database_ without
purging the config files for the package. For example, I have installed exim-tls, which
shares config files with exim. I now have exim-tls working and have removed exim, but not
purged it, because if I purge it, then it will delete the config files for exim-tls (since
they are the same ones).
Perhaps a --databaseonly option so that this idea could be used with remove too? (removing
packages from the database without removing the binaries/docs etc.) Obviously this option
would never be turned on by default and a warning would be placed in the documentation
against abusing it.
Alternatively, how about an auto-detect so that config files are not purged if they are
shared? (such as in the case above)
Andrew Ferrier
email: andrew@new-destiny.co.uk
web: http://www.new-destiny.co.uk/andrew/
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux laura 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
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