On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 23:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 12:05 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > All the data is in .evolution or evolution so you can't possibly have
> > any of it anymore.
> > 
> > It is probably the settings, they are in gconf.  And yes, the
> > registry-like nature of gconf was always warned about and turned out to
> > be a a valid warning.
> 
> Fortunately, gconf is (at least to me) much more rational than
> the Windows registry.
> 
> After you --purge evo, it should be relatively easy to go into
> the gconf editor and zap the whole apps/evolution tree.
> 

So is this a Debian bug?  You can't seriously expect normal users to
poke around in the gconf editor to clean up after uninstalled apps.  How
are package managers supposed to handle it?

Lee


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