Hello Jon, do you have a special plugin in mind. I packaged several plugins for thunderbird and libreoffice. They all are installed as root under /usr/lib and/or /usr/share. Some of them has also config files. So I offer we can work step-by-step to the packaging process. Kind regards Mechtilde Am 07.05.21 um 02:58 schrieb Jon Gough: > The user install plugins can vary between very simple with a config file > and a couple of icons up to complex with large data >1GB and hundreds of > icons. > > So, if debs must not touch files in $HOME but is allowed to create files > there (is that not a contradiction?) where else could the 'system' files > be placed? > > Is there a process that allows the deb to 'clean up' the application > when the application is uninstalled, in particular any 'install' > artefacts that have been installed by plugins? Debs will identify > dependencies that are no longer required when they are uninstalled and > the system package manger will allow automatic uninstall of unused items > if the user wants. > > The use of .local and .config is not an issue when installing, but it is > during the un-install process that the issue arises. My experience of > users is that they know little of the file system and only really > recognise 'Documents', 'Downloads' and 'Desktop' as being places where > things are stored. I know of users who upgrade phones/tablets/PC's > because they become 'slow' due to left over items filling all available > disk space. I am hoping to be a little more user friendly than that. The > whole purpose of the plugin manager is to allow users to extend the > capabilities of the application without having to worry about the 'deb' > install processes. > > Most of the instances of the program will be installed for use on > 'single user' or 'single user account' machines. The cases where a > machine is 'multi user' will likely be developers or being 'managed' by > ICT people so that will not be an issue. In normal user cases they will > use a package manager to uninstall the package and will not go near a > command prompt. > > Jon > -- Mechtilde Stehmann ## Debian Developer ## PGP encryption welcome ## F0E3 7F3D C87A 4998 2899 39E7 F287 7BBA 141A AD7F
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