Bug#352267: apt-get --purge remove dbus-1 purges far too much
Adam D. Barratt wrote:
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 23:33 +0000, Greg Kochanski wrote:
A user who reads the man page and doesn't expect this to happen didn't
read it very carefully, IMHO:
Maybe not, or maybe he's just been using Debian since 1997, has a job,
a wife, three kids, two hamsters, and can't afford to spend every
evening re-reading man pages. Maybe he read it, say, in 2000,
or maybe in July 2005.
Why are you defending this?
It's a single word in a print statement that you're trying to protect.
Wouldn't the world be better if you just have the program print what
it's actually going to do? Huh?
Why would any sensible person want the program to print
"REMOVED" and force the user to remember some bit of documentation?
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