you mean the 2nd comment in thread, where bluca said "don't just run random commands"? Well, it was pretty harsh, but he had a point.. I mean, if someone did "

you mean the 2nd comment in thread, where bluca said "don't just run random commands"? Well, it was pretty harsh, but he had a point.. I mean, if someone did "apt remove --purge cron" and then come complaining about /etc/crontab disappearing, what would you tell them? That said, apparently the "--purge without argument" was _not_ intended, because they removed it entirely, and they were sure it would not break things. (Compare to "--preserve-root" option to "rm" - that was actually intended behavior, so maintainers there had to specifically add "--no-preserve-root" option)