On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:32:25AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > 1. Would I be a rude ass to ask for a "clean-up" script? > > > (e.g. throughout a number of changes, updates, etc files were > > > created, used, discarded, left, but no deleted.) > > > > well...there should be nothing outside of /home...if there is that is a > > packaging bug (or even rarely a upstream bug) which needs to be reported... > > > it's not that simple - at least i think so. unproven theory: > config files are not removed, unless you set a package on "purge". > upgrading (of course) does not include purging, so the config files > remain. if you then purge the upgraded package, the configs, which were > part of the earlier version but not of the later one, will stay there. > does this make sense or is dpkg more clever?
like I said...if there are files outside of /home that still remain and shouldn't it's a packaging problem and should be reported. Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
