On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:19:01PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > > > when I tried to remove KDE via dselect, > > > it didn't remove a bunch of directories because they "weren't empty" > > > or something....) > > > > I make a motion that dpkg should maintain a log of all of the "orphan" > > directories that it leaves behind because they're not empty so that we can > > go in later and clean them out.... either that or have the option for some > > interactivity where the 'remove' script would 'ls' the contents of the > > directory and then get a yes/no on whether to purge it. > > > > - Joe > > > > > I see this occasionally. What's real weird is that at least half the > time I see this 'error' the directory in question really *is* empty. > <cue Twilight Zone music>
This is a known bug in dpkg. It does first try to remove the directory, then it removes the conffiles at a later stage. But at this time no information about the directories are left. dpkg just doesn't know what to do with them. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
