smart package manager oddities

[Kevin Kofler]

Stefan Grosse wrote:
> Now I thought that when I use yum to remove smart, it (yum) would
>  clean/delete the files in /var/lib/smart/ as well. This was not the
>  case. But maybe this is intentional? I am not an expert.

Removing a package does not remove files created at runtime by the software
contained in the package (except if the preuninstall or postuninstall
script of the package removes them, but in general it doesn't), only files
contained in the package itself.

        Kevin Kofler