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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Peter da Silva wrote: > > 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. > > Right... it's much better to drop them in ~/.obscurename/gibberish. But that's the thing -- things aren't just deposited under ~/Library, because ~/Library (and /Library, and /System/Library) is (are) a whole hierarchy of places to hide things. Maybe this app put junk under ~/Library/Preferences. Maybe this one added stuff under /Library/Application\ Support. Maybe this naughty one poked in /System/Library/Frameworks. Who knows? At least with your examples, everything is restricted to your home directory. With this situation, who knows where things end up. If the application is behaved, it'll restrict itself to your home directory or the system-wide /Library tree, but they don't all do that -- some things decide to squirrel away mysterious drivers in the /System tree, which is pretty much guaranteed to break the next time you update the system. It may be "less" hateful, but that isn't saying very much. -- Chris DeversThere's stuff above here
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