On 9 February 2013 22:04, ptoche <email address hidden> wrote:
> 2. shouldn't one expect that "purge"-ing muon would remove these lists?
No. Muon is not responsible for those lists. As indicated by the
path, they are handled by the apt package.
>
> 3. after purging, cleaning, installing again, then removing the lists,
> my list of "software sources" was still present in muon, before a
> restart (not sure if they would have been cleared after a restart
> because I did not restart).
No. The software sources are configured in /etc/apt/sources.list.
The lists under /var/lib contain package information retrieved from
those sources.
On 9 February 2013 22:04, ptoche <email address hidden> wrote:
> 2. shouldn't one expect that "purge"-ing muon would remove these lists?
No. Muon is not responsible for those lists. As indicated by the
path, they are handled by the apt package.
>
> 3. after purging, cleaning, installing again, then removing the lists,
> my list of "software sources" was still present in muon, before a
> restart (not sure if they would have been cleared after a restart
> because I did not restart).
No. The software sources are configured in /etc/apt/ sources. list.
The lists under /var/lib contain package information retrieved from
those sources.