On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:43:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 20/10/99 David Jardine wrote: > > >It appears that mozilla creates a subdirectory in the user's home > >directory with the user's name, eg /home/fred/fred. I ran > ><dpkg --purge mozilla> which according to my understanding of the > >manpages should eliminate all traces of its existence - it didn't > >say that exactly, but this seemed the most radical option. > > > >However, the directories are still there, so: > > Should I have done it another way? > > Has mozilla left any other droppings on my system? > > If there is no other way to clean up, shouldn't there be? > > dpkg will not go into user's home directories and start removing > stuff, that would just be plain rude! :-) > Well, yes, I take your point, but...
> there is probably nothing left of mozzilla except for the files in > anyones home directory who used it, but those files belong to the > user so it is up to them to delete them. (there may be data they want > to keep, bookmarks for instance.) > ...wouldn't it be nicer if I knew what the deleted program had left on my system? > now if you are the only user then your the only one with these files > rm -rf fred should take care of it. (just make sure you point to the > right fred :-) ) > I must point out that this causes me no real problems. I'm still at a very experimental stage with debian and regularly reinstall the whole thing. Which raises another question: Is it legitimate for me to put you kind folks to the trouble of helping me with my problems when nothing is really critical? Thanks for your help. David > Ethan Benson > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > OpenPGP encrypted mail accepted. > To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/ > Key FingerPrint: 371A 7416 5D39 CF2D 9366 8AF6 0139 54F5 3EBD 0FE6 > RSA Key FingerPrint: DE8B 74D0 79F1 6176 9AF5 120F 47AD 9B0A > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >