Comment 12 for bug 555137

@Javier: Even if it is off-topic here, but packages really never ever should mess around with user configuration when managed over the system global packaging system. The user's configuration belongs to the user. Just because a system administrator decides to remove a certain package does not mean you want your home directory to be purged, too. Instead the software itself should be robust enough to handle broken configurations.

The purge option is intended to remove the global configuration in /etc, and it does that job well.