Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
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On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:53 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
You are confirming that there is a serious problem with the way tetex
(or at least Fink's tetex, but what I read on other mailing lists,
similar things happen on GWtex) handles its config files. I suspect
there is some philosophy behind it to respect the user's modified
config files, but in this case there should be an option to purge
everything, or at least everything outside of the user's home directory.
There is, it's called purge. If you purge a package, everything not in
homedirs is supposed to be removed, leaving no trace.
This is why I mentioned the ConfFiles mechanism which defines this
distinction between files that are removed by a simple remove or upgrade
and those that are removed by a purge. The problem is that there are
*no* ConfFiles in the tetex packages. The configure files we are talking
about are created dynamically and neither fink nor dpkg know about them,
so there is no way they can be removed automatically, purge or not.
--
Martin
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