> Most of the reside in home dir, but stays there forever. Like various cache files, settings, ... And most of the time they are not confined to single dir. I

> Most of the reside in home dir, but stays there forever. Like various cache files, settings, ... And most of the time they are not confined to single dir. I think you need to support that statement. I believe the vast majority of software on common Unix distros creates no files in $HOME[1], and of those that do the majority use one folder in home[2], which *should+ be used for configuration, and often you don't want it automatically uninstalled on software removal. The few I can think of that quote to multiple locations do so because the extra locations are shared folders. For example, I would not want my downloads directory removed on uninstallation of Firefox. 1: E.g. Most things in /bin, and /usr/bin. 2: other than what I outlined above, I can't think of any that use multiple directories. If it's truly a common as you say, you should be able to provide some examples.