When I remove a package, apt often leaves various shared and configuration
files laying around. Is there a way to remove everything
automatically? Its just seems like a waste of time to go and clean out
/etc and whatever else apt leaves laying around after I remove
something. Often I end up with a
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:44:24AM -0400, User zos wrote:
I'm sorry...its been a super crazy night (and I mean ULTRA) and this has
been bothering me for a while. Is there a specific benefit to not deleting
this stuff after I have decided that I no longer want something installed
on my box?
Hah..
--purge :)
Thanks for the tip. I can understand that a carefully crafted
configuration file is something that you don't want to lose, but there
have been a lot of packages that I just wanted to download and try out
and then removed a few minutes later. ;)
I wish that Debian used
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:03:43AM -0400, User zos wrote:
Thanks for the tip though, I guess if I read through the man files again I
might have picked that up, but I've found that I haven't had to use the
advanced features of apt much, and really...I prefer tarballs anyways for
some
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:03:43AM -0400, User zos wrote:
I wish that Debian used /usr/local more, but I guess its a case of where
do you draw the line when deciding if something should be in /usr/bin or
/usr/local/bin. For me, I generally reserve local for stuff that I install
by hand to keep
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