Your message dated Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:39:42 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#351900: dpkg remove should remove unedited conffiles
has caused the Debian Bug report #351900,
regarding dpkg remove should remove unedited conffiles
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.11.0.1
Severity: wishlist
Installing are removing a package leave a bunch
of cruft on your system. All the packages
conffiles are left, cluttering up /etc.
Now, it makes lots of sense to leave package configuration
information around, so that if one re-installs a package,
it comes back in the same state. But what if the
state is the default configuration?
Then there is no need to keep it.
I suggest that dpkg delete un-edited conffiles when
removing packages, in the interests of cleanliness.
Alternatively, dpkg could be more conservative,
and only delete conffiles if no conffile has been
edited.
Either way, it'll reduce the litter in my /etc directory.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils [textutils] 5.2.1-2.1 The GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Hi!
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 09:50:11 +0000, Greg Kochanski wrote:
> Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > I suggest that dpkg delete un-edited conffiles when
> > > removing packages, in the interests of cleanliness.
> > > Either way, it'll reduce the litter in my /etc directory.
> > I think you want to purge the packages instead of just removing them.
> >
> > I'll tag wontfix for now as I don't see the point, if some one else
> > on the team disagrees, please tag accordingly.
> The point is that no one actively wants or needs those
> un-modified configuration files. Here's an analogy:
> you go to the store and buy some trousers, but they
> don't fit so you take them back. When you return
> from the store, you see the shopping bag on your bed.
> Do you (a) leave it on the bed, or (b) bin it/recycle it?
The problem with your analogy is that dpkg considers a removed
conffile as a modification, so if --remove would remove those then
when reinstalling such packages it would not install the new versions
of those conffiles.
> Yes, I could purge the packages instead, but
> using purge regularly is a bad idea, because sooner or
> later you're going to purge something that you need.
Well the safe choice is to remove them, and only purge whatever you
are sure you'll not need in the future.
I'm thus closing this bug report.
thanks,
guillem
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