[OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/26/14 19:51, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>>
>> You are confusing things, IMHO, we are not talking about the "prerogative" of a system admin but how things are/should work.
>>
>> You seem to be suggesting that....
>>
>> yum erase google-chrome-stable
>>
>> remove *all* data that has ever been associated with Google-Chrome for *all* users.  I take it you would want it to remove, as you said, all users ~/.local/share/applications/*chrome* as well as ~/.config/google-chrome for every single user on the system?
>>
>> What if the intention or action of the admin is to....
>>
>> yum erase google-chrome-stable
>> yum install google-chrome-stable
>>
>> you've now wiped out the user's data.  Does that really sound like a good idea to you?
>>
>> Is it your contention that all applications should delete the configuration details held in ~/.config of all users when those applications are removed?  Are you going to modify yum, rpm and all package management software to add a switch to "retain user's data"?
>>
> I like the idea of "remove" which removes just the package and "erase"
> which erases everything automatically-created-and-hidden-by-system.
> From time to time software start misbehaving or an update that brings
> huge changes and it won't work properly because software has been
> updated but don't know how to handle conflicting system files. In that
> case a simple switch to removing things completely is helpful.

Thank you for *not* answering any of my questions or clarifying your wishes.
>
> Yum man page has nothing on what erase does.
>
> I don't run a multi-user setup so that is something beyond my concern.
>
While it may be something beyond your concern the tools to manage a system aren't written for you and you alone.  They are tools written to meet the needs of the majority of users.



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