Alexander K. Hansen wrote: []
'purge' (both apt-get and fink have such an option) removes system-level configuration files.
Yes, only in this case this is not always sufficient: The tetex and other tex-related packages produce files in their installation scripts that are not in the package file lists and can therefore not be removed automatically, because fink and dpkg know nothing about them.
I think if you really want to be sure that nothing messes up your new tetex package, you have to clean some things out by hand. In addition to the purge option, you would have to move all the /sw/{etc,share,var/lib}/texmf* and ~/{Library/texmf,.texmf-*} directories out of the way, plus some others I forgot, and of course /usr/local. Then install the tetex packages and move those things back that you wish to conserve. I had to do something along these lines a couple of times in order to get rid of wrong format files that kept being rebuilt.
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