[Evolution] Re: cleaning up old data

[Yavor Doganov <yavor doganov org>]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:54:23 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 23:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > After you --purge evo, it should be relatively easy to go into
> > the gconf editor and zap the whole apps/evolution tree.
>
> So is this a Debian bug?  

This is a blessing, not a bug.

> You can't seriously expect normal users to poke around in the gconf
> editor to clean up after uninstalled apps.  How are package managers
> supposed to handle it?

"apt-get remove --purge" and "dpkg -P" doesn't remove user-wide settings,
it would be a nightmare otherwise. Why would you want to delete them
anyway? Imagine that a company decides to migrate to something else and
turns back to the base app in some time. The sysadmin should configure the
settings of tens or hundreds of users then. I don't want to be at his
place ;-)

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