Hello Jon, which plugin manager are you talking about. Each application providing plugins has its own mechanism to handle them. So i don't understand what your conclusion is. So I want to know whether my packages can be affected or benefit of it. Regards Mechtilde Am 08.05.21 um 23:50 schrieb Jon Gough: > > > On 8/5/21 10:51 pm, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Jon Gough <jonsgough@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> So, any user installable application extension/plugin which has >>> executables and supporting data is left behind on the system when the >>> owning application is removed or updated using the system installation >>> process? This is accepted behaviour? >> Yes, this is accepted behaviour, because the system does not know if the >> user uses the file for anything else. Maybe $HOME is mounted from the >> network and the application using the files is still being used on a >> different system. >> >>> Shouldn't applications clean up after themselves and not leave user >>> systems with junk lying around? >> No. >> >> Grüße, >> S° >> > This suggests that for most plugins the plugin manager should facilitate > finding and installing the plugins and should probably have two > installation methodologies, one for simple plugins with very small > executable and data (non-user) footprint and one for complex plugins > with large executables and/or data (non-user). The simple one could be > based on unzipping a file and placing it in the $HOME directory > structure, the complex one could be based on 'deb' using system services > to install the plugin in system areas and only having user data in the > $HOME directory structure. This would then allow the system to manage > the removal of the non-user components when/if the main application is > removed. > > Thanks for your help in clarifying this. > > Jon > -- Mechtilde Stehmann ## Apache OpenOffice ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacOSX, Windows und OS/2 ## Debian Developer ## PGP encryption welcome ## F0E3 7F3D C87A 4998 2899 39E7 F287 7BBA 141A AD7F
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