Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Some cases prompting is benefitial, if it allows the system to > be more responsive to the users needs. All prompting is not bad. In > this case, unknown files in a directory which needs to go away has to > be handled. One can't just remove the files (they may be useful to > the local install), and one should not allow the system to silently > decay into a non conformant state.
If root places a file in some directory, dpkg does not remove the directory or the file. This means there is cruft left lying areound, where the sysadmin put it. I wouldn't characterize this as decaying, and if root put the file there, the non-conformance is root's fault. -- see shy jo
