On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Should just note here that dpkg is quite nuanced in how it removes
packages compared to rpm:
There are two states: normal removal of a package doesn't remove any
configuration files. That's so you can reinstall a package and not
have to reconfigure it. So called "purge" removes the configuration
files too.
I would think the same thing applies to removing generated data --
that there should be 3 states: remove just the package, remove the
package and generated data, or remove the package and generated data
and configuration files.
If y'all want to change the behavior of an rpm -e then you need to talking
to the rpm-maint list at
rpm.org
not here.
-sv