On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 02:42:06AM EST, Kyle wrote: > I believe these are files that are created during/after installation > that are not actually part of the package. So far as I know, there is no > package manager that can track files that are created after a package > has been installed on the system, and this is generally undesirable. > Removing such files using the package manager would be similar to > removing /var/www after Apache is removed. You would lose all your > website documents even if migrating to nginx for example. Hope this > helps explain the situation. Apt/dpkg is flexible enough to allow the removal of any extra created files at package removal time if the package maintainer wishes it. Apt has a purge command that will remove the package and all its config files. The package maintainer can then write a post removal script that checks to see if the purge command was given, and if so, remove whatever other files that the package created. Luke _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list