[maemo-developers] Subtle difference in behavior of installation packages

[From: John Pietrzak]

On 2/8/12 3:15 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2012 21:04:26 gregor herrmann wrote:
>
>> apt-get remove without --purge won't remove conffiles, which would
>> explain why /etc/sudoers.d/foo is still there ...
>>
>> And that's on purpose at least in Debian. If HAM can't be told to
>> purge a package there's not much that can be done (short of using
>> brute force in the postrm maintainer script. Ehh, this sounds ugly.).
>>

Yes, I tried the brute-force approach, and it was ugly.  Ended up with 
the package manager thinking the sudoers file still existed. :(

BTW, what is Debian's purpose on keeping conffiles around?  Is there 
value in having config info for nonexisting packages?  (Should I not be 
worried about leaving sudoers files in the sudoers.d directory?)

> You can create sudoers.d file in postinst file and remove it in postrm.
> echo "...">  /etc/sudoers.d/...

Thanks, tried that out, and it works fine!  I guess I'll just go with 
that for now...

Thanks,

--John