Tom,
Some of those "stray bits" are DLLs or Dynamic Link Libraries. One of
the problems with DLLs is that when the install software attempts to
install a DLL it needs, it may find another program may have already
installed that DLL. If so, it may opt to not install its version, but
use the already installed version. Now what does the uninstall do?
It generally plays it safe and leaves the DLL behind. If it is
ill-behaved and removes the DLL, it could then break the other programs
that may use that DLL. Even if the installer created some sort of log
of what it did for the uninstall to use, a subsequent program installed
could add its own DLL and the uninstaller would not know about it. You
can probably see that this could become very messy. From the software
writer's aspect, It is easiest to leave the "scrap" behind and leave it
up to the user or a 3rd-party cleanup program to deal with it.
Yours in enlightenment.
Girvin Herr
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)�
When you uninstall LibreOffice it has to leave the User Profile behind
so that a new install can pick up on all the old settings and stuff.
Also the problem is that the MS uninstaller is a bit rubbish imo.� Uninstalling any programs tends to leave a lot of stray bits behind and however carefully the devs try to make sure it does behave it just never quite behaves properly.� LO is not alone in this.�
Regards from
Tom :)�
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From: Bob Keeley <ols...@gmail.com>
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Monday, 11 February 2013, 23:04
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Uninstall
Just did an uninstall of 3.5 and checked my Programs Folder.
Libreoffice leaves behind 40 files...
Then looked at the 3.5 PDF Documentation and "uninstall" isn't even listed.
Where are the Uninstall install instructions?
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