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 using (and even if the user ever modified it or not) but not > what additional steps the maintainer script will take I don't think it's that easy. You can only do that with conffiles, but not with configuration files, or even data files in /var/lib (think about PostgreSQL -- purging will take your entire database into the void). I don't think this behaviour would be entirely unexpected, though. If you "remove" a database, then I don't think it's totally surprising that this also cleans up your data, but as you say for those 1% it's better to be safe than sorry. > That being said I think we should make it easy for the user to access > the purge functionality both inside software-center and > computer-janitor. I like that idea, too. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
