[Wine] Re: Wine is not doing a clean --purge

soundcheck wineforum-user at winehq.org
Wed Jan 5 10:25:01 CST 2011


dimesio wrote:
> 
> soundcheck wrote:
> > 
> > Though I do think that should be done by the deinstallation process automatically!!
> 
> Configuration settings in the user's home directory are not normally removed by Linux package managers. Wine is no different in this regard.


Then it should be done as soon as I press the deinstall button inside Wine.
That has nothing to do with the package manager. 

The dead bodies after deinstallation look pretty cheap ( from an app perspective)  to me.  Many normal users ( no Linux hackers), would have a problem with that.







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