On 31 May 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:

: > - 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.

If you re-read what I said, it would be trivial to add an option to
pkg_delete that will delete files marked by:

@config %D/etc/foo/bar

because, of course, you have the pathname right there in your +CONTENTS.  ;)

: > @unexec rmdir %D/blah/foo 2>/dev/null || true
: 
: Yes, how do we call it? "@trydirrm"?

Hm.  @idirrm (i for "ignore error")?

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