On 27 June 2013 12:03, Flavio Martins Prado <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem is probably caused by a configuration of synaptic saved on
> the ROOT directory.  After purging synaptic, the configuration files
> should be removed, but they aren't... I coud find a .synaptic in root
> and in my home directory.
>
> This should be considered another bug, or this is an acceptable
> behavior? I think purging a package should delete ALL config files...

No.  Purging a package removes log and system configuration files, but
must never touch files in a users home directory (such as ‘/root’).

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