Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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