Hi !

I'm the maintainer of Ryzom package.

Thanks for reporting that, but that was intended !

Before downloading data in ~/.ryzom, we were putting them in
/usr/share/games/ryzom and it was worst ! Because even if we were able
to remove them while uninstalling the package, a lot of people have a
limited space in their / partition and 6 GB is too much.

Dowloading into ~/.ryzom was a suggestion by Canonical employees
themselves.

Now imagine we delete ~/.ryzom after package uninstall, all personal
infos are deleted too (interface saves, landmarks, screenshots, chat
logs, etc...). If we try to delete only ~./ryzom/data (the 6 GB data),
how the uninstaller will know where are located these data because each
user can have a copy ? What if a user uninstalled it to reinstall it
later ? He'll have to redownload all 6 GB.

All applications put their data in ~ and some of them are using more
disk space as other, do you know any application who delete files in ~
while being uninstalled ?

When launching Baobab, the user will notice there is a folder taking
more than 6 GB and will be able to remove it manually if that's his
choice. Instead of forcing something (Apple or Microsoft policies), I
prefer to let the choice.

Eventually, perhaps I could add a dialog message at the end of patching
process that if he want to free 6 GB, the user have to manually delete
the ~/.ryzom/data directory.

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