On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 12:07:29AM +, "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> A user who reads the man page and doesn't expect this to happen didn't
> read it very carefully, IMHO:
>
> --purge
> Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be
> remo
Christian Perrier wrote:
Except the two hamsters, I'm afraid I'm having all of the above and up
You have no concept how many wood shavings two hamsters can put on the
floor and the vacuuming required.
to now I never purged packages the way you described. Would this be
because I manage Debian
> Maybe not, or maybe he's just been using Debian since 1997, has a job,
> a wife, three kids, two hamsters, and can't afford to spend every
> evening re-reading man pages. Maybe he read it, say, in 2000,
> or maybe in July 2005.
Except the two hamsters, I'm afraid I'm having all of the above an
Adam D. Barratt wrote:
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 23:33 +, Greg Kochanski wrote:
A user who reads the man page and doesn't expect this to happen didn't
read it very carefully, IMHO:
Maybe not, or maybe he's just been using Debian since 1997, has a job,
a wife, three kids, two hamsters, and c
Steve Langasek wrote:
tags 352267 -moreinfo unreproducible
thanks
Yes, it says REMOVED, not PURGED. It did not remove them, it purged
them. It did not inform the user what it was going to do.
A user who actually reads the man page and knows the difference between
remove and purge wo
tags 352267 -moreinfo unreproducible
thanks
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:33:00PM +, Greg Kochanski wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:46:26PM +, Greg Kochanski wrote:
> >>I expected this to purge dbus-1.I expected that other packages
> >>would be removed (because they depend on dbus-
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 23:33 +, Greg Kochanski wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
[...]
> > Well, I *definitely* can't reproduce this. If I try to purge a package that
> > has reverse-dependencies installed on the system, I get this:
> >
> > # apt-get --purge remove samba-common
> > Reading packag
Steve Langasek wrote:
tags 352267 moreinfo unreproducible
severity 352267 normal
thanks
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:46:26PM +, Greg Kochanski wrote:
I expected this to purge dbus-1.I expected that other packages
would be removed (because they depend on dbus-1), but not purged.
Well,
tags 352267 moreinfo unreproducible
severity 352267 normal
thanks
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:46:26PM +, Greg Kochanski wrote:
> I intended to purge dbus-1 so I could make sure that the config
> files were the Debian defaults. I intended to re-install
> dbus-1 immediately afterwards. So, I d
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.43.2
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
I intended to purge dbus-1 so I could make sure that the config
files were the Debian defaults. I intended to re-install
dbus-1 immediately afterwards. So, I did
apt-get --purge dbus-1
I expected this to
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