>>>>> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> When you purge a package, not only will its conffiles be
Joost> removed, dpkg will not know that it ever was installed. So
Joost> if you later reinstall the package and for some reason some
Joost> conffile still exists, it will be overwritten with the
Joost> default package conffile.
If you look at dpkg in isolation, this is correct.
Be aware, though, that if the package is debconf'ized, debconf will
still have the *answers* to the configuration questions posted via
debconf in its own database. So --purge and reinstall will not get
rid of those.
I could be speaking out of my ass here, however... ;-)
Bye, J
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