Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Saturday 2007-10-27 at 11:48 +0200, Aniruddha wrote:

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What's openSUSE's policy in regards to config files? Does removing programs with yast/zipper also remove it's config files by default? And if not how do I achieve this?

AFAIK, they are not removed. At least, they are not removed if they were modified.

And how do I make sure this does happen?

What do you want to do, remove them? That has to be done manually.

For instance, if you install mysql, create some databases, then remove mysql, the databases remain. You might want to reinstall them later. In

This is somewhat different - the database files are actually user data, not config files. They should never ever be erased automatically. And also it is not possible, since you can put your user data anywhere, package management does not know about them. But as for e.g. /etc/my.cnf (most probably modified), it would be very handy if we had a possibility to remove them automatically (like aptitude purge <package> or apt-get --purge remove <package> does). Does rpm support something like this? Jano

any case, removing them automatically would be a bad idea, could cause accidents.

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