purge mailman (remove everything)

[Colin Law]

On 5 January 2014 16:25, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:15:29 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Good point, thanks for explaining that.  except....that it did actually
> try to remove the directories, but couldn't because they weren't empty.
> I guess it's the files in the directories, which were created by running
> mailman, which cause that problem.

The directories were presumably created by the install, so 'remove'
tried to remove them but could not.

Colin