Ok, that's an interesting point of view. But it has just one problem. When the package is purged, its configuration files are removed, so, in this case, I wouldn't have the list for purged packages, which are the one that the user will (in most cases) want to remove the config files.
But at other hand, I can read this configuration files and create a database, and then I can see which packages were purged... what do you think? Em Qui, 2003-07-03 às 20:58, Andrew Suffield escreveu: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:21:42PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > This discussion has been started in debian-devel, but as I saw that a > > policy change is needed, I'm bringing it to the correct list. > > > > Proposal: > > Include a control file like "conffiles" into the debian package in a > > way the dotfiles and directories in user's home directory can be easily > > related to the debian package. > > > > Objective: > > Allowing the creation of a program (suggested name: "usersconfpurge") > > that the user will run and say "I don't use icewm anymore, please remove > > its configuration files from my home dir". > > This doesn't need to be a control file, and doesn't need to be covered > by policy. Go write the program and then ask people to install the > necessary data files for it. It should be fairly simple. > > -- > .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield > : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, > `. `' | Imperial College, > `- -><- | London, UK
