XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: peterbuiltsedona@trux.net
In article <69716da3$1$26$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
crude@sausa.ge says...
>
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:51:12 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
> > Alan wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:
> >
> >> On 2026-01-21 09:10, CrudeSausage wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:28:27 +0000, vallor wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> At Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:19:28 -0800, Alan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 2026-01-20 12:14, vallor wrote:
> >>>>>> At Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:23:37 -0800, Alan wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 2026-01-20 09:47, CrudeSausage wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:39:27 +0000, vallor wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> So say you side-load a Mac app. You usually get a .dmg
> which you
> >>>>>>>>> mount, then drag the app folder on top of the handy alias for
> >>>>>>>>> the system app folders.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> That's fine, but what if you want to uninstall? There
> doesn't
> >>>>>>>>> seem to be much of a package manager involved.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> But on Linux, apps are in packages that are tracked by the
> >>>>>>>>> system.
> >>>>>>>>> When you uninstall an app on Linux, the default is to take away
> >>>>>>>>> the app without touching config files -- but with the apt/dpkg
> >>>>>>>>> "purge" option, the package system will clean out the config
> >>>>>>>>> files, too.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> (Not user dot-files though, those are yours to keep.)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Generally, even after I purge an application in Linux, its
> >>>>>>>> settings remain. You have to manually delete the folder in
> >>>>>>>> .config the same way you would in any other operating system. Of
> >>>>>>>> course, it's a lot easier to do on Linux since those folders are
> >>>>>>>> exactly where you would expect them to be, not lost in the
> >>>>>>>> registry or some obscure folder.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> LOL!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Riiiiiiiight.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> What is "obscure" about the folders used in macOS?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Like so many do, you confuse what you are not USED TO with
> >>>>>>> something being wrong.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You forget that I have a Mac Studio, and it is running Tahoe. BTW,
> >>>>>> the 64GB and Apple M2 Ultra processor, coupled with the extra
> >>>>>> storage, as well as the Studio monitor, ended up north of $7K to
> >>>>>> purchase in the Apple store. (I justified the expense by thinking
> >>>>>> of it as a Unix workstation -- which it ultimately is.)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Anyhow: On Linux, apt/dpkg (and dnf/rpm) keep track of what has
> >>>>>> been installed -- each and every file.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And apps on the Mac keep all of their functional parts within the
> >>>>> app package.
> >>>>
> >>>> But not their config files, according to
> >>>>
> >>>> <696fe2ea$1$22$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
> >>>
> >>> This is what I meant by "obscure folder."
> >>>
> >>> < snip >
> >>
> >> ~/Library/ is "obscure" to you?
> >
> > It is until you know about it :-D
>
> Maybe I didn't get the chance to know about it because my computer
> committed suicide as a result of me using the NVMe too much. Anal sees
> that as a feature.
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