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Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons




On 5/6/21 8:36 am, Sven Hartge wrote:
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:

I genuinely do not see what insisting on uninstalling plugins at the
same time as the main program, for all user accounts, provides as a
benefit. The only maybe benefit I've seen suggested is cleaning up to
free disk space, and that seems to me to be so obviously heavily
outweighed by the other considerations that it should clearly not be
the deciding priority.
Also beware of strange stuff the user may have done to the data in
$HOME.
Yup, but these users are in the minority. At uninstall, given the choice to delete or not delete non-config data they can decide what to do. This, of course, applies to naive  users as well.

On one of the multi-user systems I admin for my University one user had
placed a symlink to /usr/bin as $HOME/bin and another symlink to / as
$HOME/root. I have no idea as to *why* but imagine the fun you can have
if you just naivly delete something following symlinks.

Grüße,
Sven.



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