On 05/26/14 17:01, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 05/26/14 15:00, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >>> There is nothing glorifying in ~/.local/share/applications. You may like dead links in your application menu. I don't. I like the concept of purging everything a package installed. Any time you reinstall you will have deal with conflicts. >> So, for example, you are on a system shared with other users and the admin decides to erase firefox you want the erasure of firefox to remove all *your* firefox related data? Remembering that it is possible that users install and run their own copies of firefox within the users environment. >> >> Would you want the erasure of digikam to remove all photos in a users area? >> >> Think about it..... >> >> Removing a *system* application should not (dare I say must not) fiddle with user's files. > That raw data is not useful for general users. Most computer users > don't even know what a browser is. All important data like bookmarks > and settings are already synced to the cloud. > > Photos have nothing to do with digiKam. They existed before digiKam > and will be added after it is installed. There is a vast difference > between user photos and links created the system. > > How an administrator wants to do things is his prerogative? In my > university, probably standards for any American university, is to > delete any personal data after a user logs off. You can't run > executables. You can't save anything on the library, or cafeteria or > computer lab's computer for that matter. > You are confusing things, IMHO, we are not talking about the "prerogative" of a system admin but how things are/should work. You seem to be suggesting that.... yum erase google-chrome-stable remove *all* data that has ever been associated with Google-Chrome for *all* users. I take it you would want it to remove, as you said, all users ~/.local/share/applications/*chrome* as well as ~/.config/google-chrome for every single user on the system? What if the intention or action of the admin is to.... yum erase google-chrome-stable yum install google-chrome-stable you've now wiped out the user's data. Does that really sound like a good idea to you? Is it your contention that all applications should delete the configuration details held in ~/.config of all users when those applications are removed? Are you going to modify yum, rpm and all package management software to add a switch to "retain user's data"? -- Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -- Dandemis -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
