Hi!
- Sam Roberts:
I can simulate by running install in --no-harm mode, and then
deleteing what I saw, but why not allow it to do it? Perhaps
refusing if what it’s removing isn’t the same as what it put there?Is it a safety issue? I can’t be the first person to want to
uninstall something!
‘–no-harm’ should be taken literally. Overwriting files is only one
possibility of doing harm to an installation. Suppose you have a some
media player program that allows to install plug-ins. Also suppose
you use a DeCSS plug-in. Now you are installing the DRM plug-in.
While it does not overwrite any files it is incompatible to the DeCSS
plug-in which ceases to work.
Just my 0.02 EUR,
Josef ‘Jupp’ SCHUGT
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