[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #13427: Package Uninstall should run a Bash Script too

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  • Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 14:16:43 -0000

#13427: Package Uninstall should run a Bash Script too
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  Reporter:  AGMS        |      Owner:  bonefish
      Type:              |     Status:  new
  enhancement            |
  Priority:  normal      |  Milestone:  R1/beta3
 Component:              |    Version:  R1/Development
  Servers/package_daemon |   Keywords:  .PackageInfo post-install-scripts
Resolution:              |  uninstall
Blocked By:              |   Blocking:
  Platform:  All         |
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Comment (by AGMS):

 I'm not sure that user file deletion should be in the uninstall script.
 When doing an update it will uninstall the old version and install the new
 version.  It would be kind of annoying to have files deleted then.  Better
 to have cleanup-user-files as a menu item in the deskbar, which just fires
 off a shell script.  Or if you want to get weird, trash the files on
 uninstall, restore them from trash on install.

 Anyway, that's more of a policy on what an uninstall script should do.
 Which can be summed up as not annoying the user.  We just need to have a
 mechanism to run a script on uninstall.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/13427#comment:11>
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