Re: mozilla extensions

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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:

> That brings me to the next bitch, installers. If we had properly 
> designed systems the only time you'd EVER need an installer is to 
> replace core OS components. OS X isn't quite that good, but it's 
> close, SO WHY DO PEOPLE STILL WRITE INSTALLERS? ARE THEY STUPID?
 
Charmingly, OS X mostly gets around the need for installers, lots of 
things are just drag & drop. But if you want to remove the program, it 
isn't enough to just drag the application to the trash, because in many 
cases it will have deposited random files under ~/Library and /Library. 
Moreover, there's little rhyme or reason as to where things get added, 
and no tools (that I've been able to find) that help clean things out. 



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Chris Devers

• peter (Peter da Silva) 21:52 on 30 Mar 2005
  • Michael G Schwern 22:11 on 30 Mar 2005
  • Re: installers (was: mozilla extensions) Paul Mison 12:19 on 31 Mar 2005
    • peter (Peter da Silva) 17:06 on 31 Mar 2005
  • Re: mozilla extensions Chris Devers 14:07 on 31 Mar 2005
    • peter (Peter da Silva) 17:14 on 31 Mar 2005
      • too deep to show
    • Earle Martin 21:02 on 01 Apr 2005
      • too deep to show

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