On Sun, 2026-06-14 at 18:29 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > The closed won't fix response was: > > "dnf remove" are not expected to touch user directory. It > can happen that user needs to do some "cleanup" manually. > > Am I being "blown off" or is this actually the case? If not > the sue, why lease the system entries too? It feels > like a blow off.
Package installation (RPMs) have never installed files in user's homespace, nor removed them during package uninstallation. Files are created/modified in there by the user's interaction with the program (deliberate, or not). It can also be the case that system-wide configurations inside /etc *may* not be removed during RPM removal, since they may be user- customised files rather than the defaults (though the defaults tend to be inside /usr more often, nowadays). This is one reason why the Windows-mentality of reinstalling does not fix most problems on Linux (particularly if the problem is caused by configuration). > I took me five pages of questions and answers with ChatGPT > to narrow down the problem. Not funny to screw the user > like this. Just goes to show how good it isn't. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
