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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by mjan22640 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:04AM (#37495120)
A VSCode extension would be installed and managed by the OS package manager. User created content would be not.
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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by jraph on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:07AM (#37495133)
You, you want Microsoft to lose its total control over the VSCode extension "marketplace", don't you?
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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by simiones on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @08:31AM (#37495859)
Really? Do you install Firefox extensions from apt-get?
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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by Kye on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:53AM (#37496764)
I haven't used Linux in a while, but I do remember seeing browser extensions in the package manager.
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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by pxc on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @10:48AM (#37497468)
It's not unusual to do this in the Nix world.

There are a ton of VSCode extensions in Nixpkgs: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&from=0&size=...

You can use them in combination with the vscode-with-extensions function to create a VSCode package that bundles in whatever extensions you declare: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by kiwijamo on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:40PM (#37503097)
Yes, there are a few that can be installed from the Debian packages.
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