purge mailman (remove everything)

[thufir]

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.


-Thufir