Re: [Hampshire] dumb aptitude question

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Author: Hugo Mills
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To: testermike, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] dumb aptitude question

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On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:00:12PM -0500, Mike Burrows wrote:
> How come after I run aptitude purge apache2, a whole bunch of apache2
> related stuff is still there when i run locate apache2?
>
> eg:
>
> /var/log/apache2/access.log.4.gz

[snip]

These weren't shipped in the package -- they were created by the
application. Thus the package manager doesn't know about them, and
can't sensibly remove them.

> or:
>
> /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc/manual/mod/mod_log_config.html.ko.euc-kr

[snip]

Not in the apache2 package:

$ dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc
apache2-doc: /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc

Hugo.

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