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

[James Mckenzie]

soundcheck <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>dimesio wrote:
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>> > Though I do think that should be done by the deinstallation process automatically!!
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>> Configuration settings in the user's home directory are not normally removed by Linux package managers. Wine is no
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>Then it should be done as soon as I press the deinstall button inside Wine.
No, read what dimensio said:  Wine is no different than most Linux Packagers.  This means that there is no 'cleanup' code inside Wine to do this, nor should there be at this time.  If you want to dust off your programming skills and tackle this you are welcome to.  Either that or look in Wine's Bugzilla for a bug report.  I remember there was one and it was marked and closed as WONTFIX because removal of Application Menu entries is outside of the scope of what Wine is designed to do.

>That has nothing to do with the package manager. 

Actually, it would be great if someone did something like WineBottler for Linux.  It does all of the external 'stuff' to include adding and deleting Application Menus.  People have been asking for a launcher for a long time.

James McKenzie
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>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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