Uninstall deletes cherokee.conf

[danielniccoli]

Executing make uninstall deletes cherokee.conf. I am uncertain whether this is common practice, but I did not expect that.

[skinkie]

The behavior is controlled here below, but do validate if we should keep or delete.

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/blob/master/Makefile.am#L143

[danielniccoli]

Some months ago I asked a question in the Debian mailing list and in the IRC channel #debian on freenode. The question was whether make uninstall should delete configuration files. The answer was that there would not be any policy that tells you whether it should, or should not be deleted. It's essentially the decision of the programmers.

I believe that it should not be deleted. Here is why:

1. I usually do use make uninstall before installing a new version of Cherokee. That requires me to always rename the config file before doing so, and renaming it back afterwards.
2. If I apt-get remove or aptitude remove a package, the config file is usually not deleted unless I apt... purge the package. That also led me into opening this ticket.

[skinkie]

My suggestion: come up with a patch that has make purge which deletes everything and make uninstall that keeps the config.

[danielniccoli]

👍