On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:23:06PM -0400, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard 
to say:
> Tod Detre wrote:
> A less drastic approach, which would not risk breaking anything, would be 
> "apt-get install --reinstall $pkg" in place of the last two steps.  I don't 
> know if it would accomplish the same thing, however.

  This would do the same thing as aptitude's reinstall.  Since he said
this left the "changed" files in place, I assume he's talking about
conffiles, and the only way to reset those that I know of is to purge
and reinstall.

  Daniel


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