Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. There are two questions here:
Right, and thank you. > I would not trust my English enough to decide whether > "configuration files must be preserved when the package is removed, and > only deleted when the package is purged." should read "must be deleted on > purge" or "can be deleted on purge". I guess that's not a question of english, but rather a WYRINWIM-clause (what you read is not what I mean...). > Some people do a `rm -rf' on directories the package created > (e.g. under /etc/ or /var/) but I believe there are enough > flamewars^Wdiscussions in the archive of debian-devel you could refer to > to decide if you want to do this. (The last one seems to be > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200307/msg00919.html) Nice and instructive to read this. I prefer to be flamed by Xu et al. instead of Towns et al... Merci vielmal, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]