On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Dylan <dylan@dylan.me.uk> wrote:
Uninstalling the package is just that: uninstalling only the contents of the rpm(s) ... the package has no way to know which directories users have their settings in. Also, what you are asking for is that the uninstallation procedure should delete users' data - this is generally a Bad Thing:wold you want your photos to disapear when an image manager is removed? or your auio files ... or your buisiness accounts ... A package never (one certainly hopes) deletes files from home directories and possibly leaves other "traces" behind.
If you want the cache and config directories removed from your home directory you have to do it yourself. Just imagine you need to remove chromium and re- install it for some reason ... what behaviour would you want then? All your bookmarks etc to remain or for the process to blow them away?
Ok, when I uninstalled and installed back the "chromium" (from Yast) -- I got the exactly same bookmarks and everything the same, even the same preferences were saved in the again installed chromium -- so it might have happened due to this fact that settings are saved in the users home directory. Well that analogy is good that while uninstalling a image editor (say) no one would want to photos be deleted again, correct but here the photos would be saved not in the directory where settings of that image editor would be save (like in .config or .cache), after editing an image, probably one would save in the some directory like /home/user/photos. So really what I meant is there any way to completely remove the traces too -- traces of the softwares settings and not the things which were being implemented upon using that software. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org