Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:02:04PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
>> What if the packages tells to dpkg which files or directories it will
>> create on the user's home directory and when a package is purged the
>> user could run a program to purge the files of packages that no longer
>> exists.
>
> I have a better idea :) What if packages don't leave droppings in my
> home directory in the first place? I have all sorts of dotfiles (and
> even dot-directories) that I never asked for. It's reasonable for a
> program to install a dotfile when I configure it differently from the
> default, but there's no reason to create a dotfile that's identical
> to the default.
Amen, brother!
$ ls -Ad ~/.* | wc -l
241
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