Jon Gough <jonsgo...@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°

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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