I don’t know the behavior of apt-get --purge but it would be
interesting how the package manager should know about the
(configuration) files created on the first start of the application in
the users home directory. I googled a bit around and found out that this
is also not handled by apt-get
I guess the option --purge is meant for deleting global configuration
files those who commonly resides in /etc and not in the users home.
I guess deleting the files in users home directory is actually not
wanted at all. Just read this ‘Ubuntu Forums - View Single Post - [idea]
delete .file when removing packages from Synaptic’
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2722101&postcount=8) posting and
I fully agree with that.
Well I also agreed with the post. Looking to this side…
But my problem is that I want to make a backup of my system (all
packages installed) and home folder (preferences). And them I will
backup a lot of useless things. But I will take a look manually and
delete what I can identify.
Do you have a suggesttion to backup my system? (A way to save all the
packages installed?).
There is a lot of packages that I installed by Webpin, and they are not
available in the repositories, how can I make them also install
automatically in case I have to format my computer?
