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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.27
Severity: wishlist
In the apt-get man page are the lines:
--purge
Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be
removed.
An asterisk ("*") will be displayed next to packages
which are
scheduled to be purged. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Purge.
This description doesn't tell the user anything about what purging
actually does. In addition, the remove section lines read:
remove remove is identical to install except that packages are
removed
instead of installed. If a plus sign is appended to the
package
name (with no intervening space), the identified package
will be
installed instead of removed.
This is also confusing, because remove is *not* the exact inverse of
install unless "--purge" is specified.
I recommend a few new sentences be added in either or both of these
places stating that "apt-get remove" won't (by default) remove
configuration information, and that supplying the "--purge" flag will
cause the entire package to be removed, along with configuration files.
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