I think abill_uk has a point. People here insist that "apt-get --purge remove" solves all probelms, but does it really?

I'm no expert in building dpkg packages, but as creating them can involve some manual work there exists the possibility of errors. Or are the .debs in Maemo repos systematically smoke tested as for installing/uninstalling cleanly? (I think not, as I recall installing some broken packages myself).

It's not that I'd be complaining (no place for that when people are using their free time to provide the stuff, quite the opposite), I just think the notion "as long as apt is used nothing can go wrong", which seems to be the idea behind replies abill_uk is getting, is false.