Bug#156132: marked as done (apt: --purge is OVERACTIVE)
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Subject: apt: --purge is OVERACTIVE
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
DOING:
apt-get --purge remove PACKAGE
then hitting yes/enter
will purge the dependencies that are also being removed. THIS SHOULD
REQUIRE AN EXTRA CONFIG.
for example, apt-get --purge remove exim purged my apache conf files and
caused me hours of trouble.
OK folks?
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 19:57:21 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#156132: apt: --purge is OVERACTIVE
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To: Hunter Peress <hu.peress@mail.mcgill.ca>, 156132-done@bugs.debian.org
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Hunter Peress wrote:
> DOING:
> apt-get --purge remove PACKAGE
>
> then hitting yes/enter
>
> will purge the dependencies that are also being removed. THIS SHOULD
> REQUIRE AN EXTRA CONFIG.
Er, this is how it is documented to work, why on earth would you think it
would do anything else?
APT even shows a special mark on all the packages it is going to purge
when it prints out what it is going to do!
This sounds reminicient of the old 'rm -rf /' is harmful, thus rm should
need an even specialer flag.
Jason
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