also sprach Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.29.1934 +0200]: > 1. No conffiles in the package. > 2. No postrm script in the package. > > Since purging consists only of running postrm purge and deleting > conffiles, a package that meets these criteria does not need anything > done to be purged, so removing it sets its state to purged.
Makes perfect sense. This is not documented anywhere, AFAICT. I just
verified it against the source code.
Thanks for the explanation, Joey.
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