Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware

Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by tetris11 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @05:55AM (#37494578)

It usually doesn't, and it's mostly a good standards recommendation that even the most GPL of GPL codebases doesn't always follow (looking at you, emacs).

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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by chimprich on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:49AM (#37494998)

Emacs has respected $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a while now. There are worse offenders (e.g. not likely to see the end of .mozilla any time soon).

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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by j16sdiz on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:51AM (#37495489)

GNU emacs was created at 1984. XDG Base Directory spec was started around 2003..

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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by Zambyte on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @08:12AM (#37495667)

Also Emacs will reapect files being placed in XDG directories, it just doesn't put them there...

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