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I agree, that's more of the issue. But how would you solve it? What is 'uninstalling'? Via what mechanism? Should 'rm -rf program/' clean up the registry? How?
by orf 8y ago
I agree, that's more of the issue. But how would you solve it? What is 'uninstalling'? Via what mechanism? Should 'rm -rf program/' clean up the registry? How?
- marcosdumay 8y agoWell, what does Android do? The uninstalling procedure should clean the registry. "Uninstalling" is whatever the OS standardize as the correct procedure, Windows has one already, but it's reminiscent of the way people did packages by the time Linux software was distributed in tgz archives.
- orf 8y agoAndroid is way more tightly controlled, uninstalling an applications scoped data is just removing a directory. In Windows it's up to the app to clean up. It's not as great as *nix, but nobody is saying it was. Apt and friends just do the cleanup for the app, in a standardized way. If they miss something it's still there.