Annoyances: September 2007 Archives
By default "apt-get remove package" doesn't purge everything related to the package. This eventually means that a log of configuration files are left scattered around the place with no corresponding packages. A couple of weeks ago, the following solution was proposed on #linux:
This is good for cleaning up after the fact, but is also possible to get apt to purge configuration files automatically. To accomplish this put the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT
{
dpkg --purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1`
This is good for cleaning up after the fact, but is also possible to get apt to purge configuration files automatically. To accomplish this put the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT
{
This will cause apt-get to automatically purge the configuration files every time you do "apt-get remove"Get}
{
Purge "true";
}
