On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:00:18PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Patrick Schoenfeld > > Hi, > > | depends on what you expect. I would expect or no lets say I wish that > | purging a package removes all traces that the package where installed > | in the first place, except the cases where this is inappropriate (for > | example: there is a good reason not to remove logfiles on purge). > > So you would expect a package to be marked as uninstalled and not purged > in the dpkg status file when it's purged? And for packages that does > not come from Packages file to be completely dropped?
In my statement that you cite I already mentioned that for cases where its inappropiate to remove traces of the package it probably makes sense to draw a line. The dpkg status file probably is such a case. I never talked about this, anyway. Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
