Synaptic any better than Windows ?

[Vram]

On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 01:52 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Hmmmm, hum hum....mmmmmmm.......
> 
> I tried to remove the 'powernowd' program, as it's installed by Ubuntu,
> but it doesn't work with my CPU apparently, so I would rather keep it
> from loading at boot. The less stuff in memory and on in the system disk
> partition, the better.
> 
> So I removed it from Synaptic.... or so I thought !


Try apt-get remove powernowd....

> 
> ....it appears that the script is still there in /etc/init.d, as well as
> 7 symlinks to it in each of the rcX.d directories.
> 
> Not very impressed then, leaves just as much crap as Windows when trying
> to do the same... :-/


Couldn't be the operator... Could it...

> 
> So I am rather worried, now. Everytime I un-install a package from
> Synaptic, is it REALLY, COMPLETELY removed, or are they still a few
> files here and there, that will never get removed and just clog the
> system a bit more each time I un-install a program ?
> 


Synaptic is just a gui front end...


> 
> Vince, very disappointed and worried :o(
> 
> 
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