Aptitude--any users!

[James Freer]

On 2 May 2011 07:55, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 09:18:43PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>
>             ..........snip.........
>>
>> If you purge it you'll remove the application and the config.
>
> Unless the config file is in your $HOME directory.
>
> --
> Bob Holtzman

Bob

Thanks for mentioning that [something i'd forgotten to include].

It seems config files do appear in the $home directory for all apps so
in order to avoid problems on a machine what should one do. Folk who
keep a separate $home partition from update to update must be getting
a bit full up of .files (hidden files).

james