On Sat, Dec 05 2009, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:47:18PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
>> That is okay, as long as ucf is around. But as soon as it isn't
>> the purge of a package is succesful while leaving modified files around.
>> So the effect is that a purge does not "remove everything".
>>
>> Do we really want that? Should ucf be 'required' to avoid that?
>
> ucf being priority required is not sufficient. It is still possible to
> remove such a package (mawk is a good example) and therefore you would
> still need to execute ucf conditionally. The only way around that is to
> make ucf essential, and I don't think that's a good idea.
Making a package essential in order to avoid a if clause in
postinsts is very likely too frivolous a reason to pass muster, yes.
manoj
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