Re: Subtle difference in behavior of installation packages

2012-02-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:38:53 -0500, John Pietrzak wrote: apt-get remove without --purge won't remove conffiles, which would explain why /etc/sudoers.d/foo is still there ... And that's on purpose at least in Debian. BTW, what is Debian's purpose on keeping conffiles around? Is there value

Re: Subtle difference in behavior of installation packages

2012-02-09 Thread John Pietrzak
On 2/9/12 6:30 PM, gregor herrmann wrote: On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:38:53 -0500, John Pietrzak wrote: BTW, what is Debian's purpose on keeping conffiles around? Is there value in having config info for nonexisting packages? (Should I not be worried about leaving sudoers files in the sudoers.d