On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:14:13 -0600 Andrew Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 09:45 PM, Kow K wrote: > > Anyway, if you don't have the package XXX running on your system, you > > can safely delete .XXX directory with "rm -rf XXX". > > > > I know, it would just be a nice little feature no to have to go clean > up after a remove. Kind of like preference files, not a big deal to do > it manually, but just an annoying extra step, especially if the > application give the pref file some bizarre name. Too bad Spring > Cleaning is such a worthless app. Don't forget that at the core, Unix is a *multi-user*, *networking* operating system. If I log in as root, whose private configuration files should "fink remove <package>" remove? If I decide to move an application to another computer and use it there remotely, how ticked off would I be if I removed the application from this computer and my config files disappeared along with it? HTH, Dan -- <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> An omer is a tenth of an ephah. -- Exodus 16:36. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
