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The Saturday 2007-10-27 at 12:34 +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
What do you want to do, remove them? That has to be done manually.
For instance, if you install mysql, create some databases, then remove
mysql, the databases remain. You might want to reinstall them later. In
any case, removing them automatically would be a bad idea, could cause
accidents.
I understand that. That's why this isn't the default option. However
almost every distribution offers you the possibility to also completely
remove the configuration files. Isn't there such a command in openSUSE?
Dunno. It's a feature I don't miss.
If wanted, the developpers can create an uninstall script that runs
automatically when the rpm is uninstalled, I think.
You can also list the configuration files (rpm -c), and possibly write a
script to remove them.
I can not tell categorically if config files are always removed or not.
I'm not certain. I remember time ago that when a package was removed yast
created a backup archive of changed configuration files, stored somewhere
under /var. I'd have to try removing something to know more.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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