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That's too broad and misleading. Package manager tracks every single file installed by a package, preventing overwrites by other packages. Strict permissions

by koiueo 3y ago

That's too broad and misleading. Package manager tracks every single file installed by a package, preventing overwrites by other packages. Strict permissions prohibit software from littering all over the place. What are you taking about? Do you want package manager to remove yourb personal data of it was created by an application your decided to remove?

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kroltan 3y ago
Maybe I do! Many Windows custom uninstallers have an option to remove "settings" while uninstalling. I sure have lots of junk in ~/.config I don't use anymore and probably never will.
SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
It should certainly be capable of removing everything the application created that wasn't manually exported by the user or saved into a user data directory. E.g. everything it made in XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_STATE_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME, etc. Probably not anything from XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR or the other "user data" directories.
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