Bug 963141 - [rfe] support purge option for package removals
Summary: [rfe] support purge option for package removals
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 1147334 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-05-15 08:49 UTC by Rahul Sundaram
Modified: 2019-12-03 12:32 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-12-03 12:32:23 UTC
Type: Bug
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Github rpm-software-management rpm issues 966 0 'None' open RFE: optionally remove modified configuration too on package removal 2020-01-28 12:57:18 UTC

Description Rahul Sundaram 2013-05-15 08:49:31 UTC 
Description of problem:

apt-get purge option removes a package AND its configuration regardless of whether the configuration is altered or not.  This is useful when you don't want to leave miscellaneous configuration files behind and have etc stores in a centrally managed system using etc-keeper or other software.
Comment 1 Ales Kozumplik 2013-05-15 09:20:50 UTC 
As this is something that should probably by handled in RPM, I'll leave it to the RPM maintainer to decide.
Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2014-09-29 06:32:01 UTC 
*** Bug 1147334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2019-12-03 12:32:23 UTC 
This a perfectly reasonable request (which is why it's still open). It's not in any way Fedora specific though, so moving to upstream where it belongs: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/966
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