In article <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905302115320.24827-100000@server.duh.org>,
	Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:
> - the currently installed package will always have an example file installed
> - the config file can be copied somewhere else, e.g. /etc, without too
>   many complications

Ok. But what I want to avoid is that this configuration file will remain
there even after the package is completely gone.

> This is already done for several pkgs, such as Apache.

I know.

> We also need a directive that allows for conditional removal of directories,
> i.e. something that replaces:
> 
> @unexec rmdir %D/blah/foo 2>/dev/null || true

Yes, how do we call it? "@trydirrm"?

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/