I think the best way of handling this problem is to do what,
for instance, the postgresql debian packages do: ask the user if he
wants the database to be also purged when the program is purged.On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:20:49PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure this is a really a bug. Pdbv generate data. I'm not sure > that desinstalling pdbv should remove data. > > dpkg --purge must remove software files (including configuration files > as /etc/pdbvrc etc...) - but it's unclear whether the generated data > must be deleted also or not. > The data is not like data gnumeric would produce (which we surely do > not want to remove by removing gnumeric) but it still data that users > may want to keep, whether pdbv is installed or not. > > Opinions, ideas? > > -- > Mathieu Roy > > << Profile << http://savannah.gnu.org/users/yeupou << > >> Homepage >> http://yeupou.coleumes.org >> > << GPG Key << http://stock.coleumes.org/gpg << > > > _______________________________________________ > Pdbv-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pdbv-dev
