On 2018 Dec 13 (Thu) at 11:20:37 +0100 (+0100), Sebastian Benoit wrote:
:I'm cleaning up things on a system, and deleting quite a few packages.
:
:For example cups. Because its no longer needed.
:
:--- -cups-2.2.8p1 -------------------
:You should also run rm -rf /etc/cups/*.conf.O /var/log/cups
:You should also remove /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (which was modified)
:You should also remove /etc/cups/classes.conf (which was modified)
:You should also remove /etc/cups/printers.conf (which was modified)
:You should also remove /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf (which was modified)
:You should also remove /etc/cups/snmp.conf (which was modified)
:You should also run rm -rf /var/cache/cups
:You should also run rm -rf /var/spool/cups
:
:If i want to actually delete all that stuff, thats a lot of copy&paste. Are
:we actually expecting users to do that?
:
:Is there some option that i dont know of to automatically remove all the
:things?
:
:I know it might be dangerous to do that, but copy&paste of tens of commands
:is also easy to mess up.
:
:/B.
:

pkg_delete -c ought to do what you want.


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