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You're trading one problem for another. What if I want to delete a user instead? Now I have that user's crap in every application bundle. However, the OS shoul
by pishpash 7y ago
You're trading one problem for another. What if I want to delete a user instead? Now I have that user's crap in every application bundle.
However, the OS should perhaps insist on a particular location within "Application Support/" that each app can write to, and when the application bundle is deleted, provide a way to delete those support files as well, either for that user alone or for all users within permission (can be a system-wide configuration).
- taftster 7y agoI would argue, I think most systems have more quantity and churn of applications than users. Meaning, it would be better to pay some overhead to deal with "user's crap" in every application bundle than to deal with "application crap" in every user's home. Your second paragraph though is probably closer to a realistic solution. That is, the OS provisions an Application Support directory and restricts the application to using it exclusively. Any application uninstalls can (via admin prompting or configuration settings) then also delete the support directories as well.