purge mailman (remove everything)

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sun Jan 5 10:15:29 UTC 2014


On 5 January 2014 00:34, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> is there a version of remove which will take out everything mailman
> installs?  I would naively take that to be purge, but I suppose /var/lib/
> mailman isn't actually a config file.

My understanding is that it removes everything that was installed.  It
will not remove files that were created after the install (by the
running software for example).  It cannot do that as it has no
knowledge of how those files got there.

Colin




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