On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:40:15PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Marc Balmer wrote:
> >But we should adhere to what the manpage says and not invent our own
> >meanings of an otherwise well documented feature.
>
> I support this.
> My understanding of the '-c' flag is that it should remove everything the
> package installed, config files included. However, it should _not_ remove
> files created using the program included in the package (like db,
> mails...).
> But maybe I understood it badly.
>
> Anyway, I'd like to know what the compromise is on this question.
Not that I'm anyone in particular, but I'd be more than a little pissed
if pkg_delete -c suddenly devoured a couple of GB of production data...
I believe that printing 'please also delete /var/postgresql' or similar
should suffice.
Joachim
