On 22-03-24 13:14, Óscar García Amor via arch-general wrote: > El jue, 24 mar 2022 a las 12:54, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general > (<arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) escribió: > > > > On 24/03/2022 07:39, Óscar García Amor via arch-general wrote: > > > But why? > > > > > > I don't quite understand why this should be banned. > > > > It's essentially the equivalent of installing a package then -Rdd a > > dependency. Would that process be encouraged in other situations? > > Not exactly, it depends on the package. There are packages that create > users and do not remove them after uninstallation, so not all packages > have a 100% clean uninstallation (not counting the impact on the disk, > fragmentation...). If I remember correctly, the reason we don't remove users/groups on uninstall is due to security reasons. It is self-explanatory why package log/state dirs are not removed. And I don't think fragmentation has been an issue since 1999. The impact on the disk is negligible, let's be honest. -- George Rawlinson
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