software-center and remove vs. purge

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, I recently came accross the following brainstorm.ubuntu.com idea that discusses remove vs purge in softare-center: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24963/ and I would like to discuss it here. Let me briefly recap the difference between the two. The removal means that the content of the

Re: software-center and remove vs. purge

2010-12-07 Thread Sebastien Bacher
On mar., 2010-12-07 at 10:13 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: computer-janitor. For software-center I would like to add a option (File/Remove with configuration). A alternative solution would be to make purge the default and have a option File/Remove but preserve the configuration). What do you

Re: software-center and remove vs. purge

2010-12-07 Thread Didier Roche
Le mardi 07 décembre 2010 à 15:27 +0100, Sebastien Bacher a écrit : On mar., 2010-12-07 at 10:13 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: computer-janitor. For software-center I would like to add a option (File/Remove with configuration). A alternative solution would be to make purge the default and have

Re: software-center and remove vs. purge

2010-12-07 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Michael, thanks for the nice summary! Michael Vogt [2010-12-07 10:13 +0100]: Its difficult to tell programmatically what is going to happen when the maintainer script is called with purge as this is a shell script. Our tools can estimate what amount of data the configuration file was

Re: software-center and remove vs. purge

2010-12-07 Thread Andrew
On 07/12/10 16:10, Martin Pitt wrote: Hello Michael, thanks for the nice summary! Michael Vogt [2010-12-07 10:13 +0100]: Its difficult to tell programmatically what is going to happen when the maintainer script is called with purge as this is a shell script. Our tools can estimate what