On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:39:11PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > On sid, recently I installed and removed the gcc-snapshot package. But > even > after removing with 'apt-get remove --purge gcc-snapshot', it leaves the > following files hanging around. > > /usr/local/bin/gcc-snapshot > /usr/local/bin/g++-snapshot > /usr/local/bin/gfortran-snapshot > > > Should not these files also be deleted once the original package has been > purged? Is it safe to delete them manually? > No and Yes. Debian policy dictates that packages can place files into /usr/local (though it is discouraged) unless they collide with something already there. However, packages are prohibited from removing anytnig from /usr/local.
-Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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