useless and useful distinctions
useless and useful distinctions
Posted Jan 27, 2012 16:56 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: useless and useful distinctions by bluss
Parent article: The case for the /usr merge
That doesnt always work out that way in practice. Removing an app from /applications doesn't remove any settings or cache files in your home directory or any system wee services or config files. Applications absolutely do spread files around that don't get cleaned up when putting the .app in the trash
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