On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 07:43:54AM +1000, Jon Gough wrote: > > On 9/5/21 5:40 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:41:13PM +1000, Jon Gough wrote: > > > My conclusion is that application plugin mangers should make use of the > > > platform installation process for installing and uninstalling plugins as > > > it > > "the platform installation process" sounds like using debs, am I wrong? > No, in this case it is a deb. An "application plugin manager" installing debs sounds wrong.
> > > However, leaving programs and binary non-user data on > > > the device is considered acceptable. This is an interesting concept for > > > phone and tablet devices which are resource constrained. > > Users of space-constrained systems should clean up the files they no > > longer need manually, preferably using tools that show the space > > distribution. > Most users have no concept of how to do this, they just buy another device > because the old one is 'broken', i.e. is full of stuff they know nothing > about. If previously we were talking about generic things that include Debian this seems to be talking about things that *don't* include Debian. > > > I now know what path I need to follow, i.e. have a plugin manager that > > > uses > > > the platform installation process so that the uninstall process will work > > > and the packages and objects will be tracked. > > If this means calling apt from a plugin manager then it's probably not the > > best idea. > Not quite. The plugin manager needs to keep track of what it has installed > and where, then during the uninstall process it can be called, if needed, to > perform the cleanup as it would if the main program were calling it to > uninstall one or more plugins. In most instances the main application is > installed on devices that have only one user, Yeah, wrong mailing list. -- WBR, wRAR
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