Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> On 19/02/2008, Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 19, 2008 10:14 PM, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> The current implementation of unmanaged files does not support
>>> directories fully. So I have a question, should the current
>>> implementation be extended or should another mechanism,
>>> unmanaged_directories be implemented?
>>>
>> I guess this was prompted by the bug about RemoveProgram? I don't
>> think directories should be removed (or, at least they should be
>> specially prompted for), since they could have had contents added
>> afterwards that shouldn't necessarily be removed. An
>> unmanaged_directories seems like the only real way to do that.
>>
>
> After some further discussion on IRC the consencus was that we should
> keep it as today, where files and empty directories are deleted, but non-
> empty directories should be noted and presented to the user as not
> taken care of and those would have to be manually deleted.
>
> Any further views?
>
So the user would be presented with a list of the "unmanaged" dirs which
RemoveProgram couldn't take care of?
If so, I find it to be a good trade-off.
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