7 Aug
2012
7 Aug
'12
1:48 p.m.
On 06/08/2012, at 4:55 PM, Tim Connors <tconnors@rather.puzzling.org> wrote:
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Jason White wrote:
Configuration files are not removed by a remove command; you need to use purge instead, and I strongly suspect --reinstall performs a "remove" rather than a "purge".
Which is a pain in the arse, because sometimes you just want to reinstall the default package version of a config file, and don't care to lose the other half dozen customised files from that package that would also be removed by a purge.
I wonder if "apt-get --purge --reinstall install <package>" behaves like that. If not, perhaps someone should write a patch to ensure that it does. ;-)