wine users - Jan 2011 - Wine is not doing a clean --purge

Hi guys.

Just figured it again. (running 1.3.10)

Wine is leaving all its entires in ~/.local/share/applications
when doing an apt-get remove --purge.

That's giving me dead bodies in the main menu. Would be nice to 
get that fixed. The desktop corpses I might accept. ;)

Cheers

> Just figured it again. (running 1.3.10)
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> Wine is leaving all its entires in ~/.local/share/applications
> when doing an apt-get remove --purge.
>
> That's giving me dead bodies in the main menu. Would be nice to
> get that fixed. The desktop corpses I might accept. ;)
>
I would talk to ubuntu about ubuntu specific issues.

John

soundcheck wrote:
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> Wine is leaving all its entires in ~/.local/share/applications
> when doing an apt-get remove --purge.
> 
> That's giving me dead bodies in the main menu. Would be nice to 
> get that fixed. The desktop corpses I might accept. ;)
> 
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8a17a13a8a4cda9e12e24a1ad4e1b1aaf043d581

Thx.

Though I do think that should be done by the deinstallation process
automatically!!

soundcheck <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>dimesio wrote:
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>> soundcheck wrote:
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>> > Though I do think that should be done by the deinstallation
process automatically!!
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>> Configuration settings in the user's home directory are not
normally removed by Linux package managers. Wine is no
>> different in this regard.
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>Then it should be done as soon as I press the deinstall button inside Wine.
No, read what dimensio said:  Wine is no different than most Linux Packagers. 
This means that there is no 'cleanup' code inside Wine to do this, nor
should there be at this time.  If you want to dust off your programming skills
and tackle this you are welcome to.  Either that or look in Wine's Bugzilla
for a bug report.  I remember there was one and it was marked and closed as
WONTFIX because removal of Application Menu entries is outside of the scope of
what Wine is designed to do.
>That has nothing to do with the package manager. 
Actually, it would be great if someone did something like WineBottler for Linux.
It does all of the external 'stuff' to include adding and deleting
Application Menus.  People have been asking for a launcher for a long time.

James McKenzie
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>The dead bodies after deinstallation look pretty cheap ( from an app
perspective)  to me.  Many normal users ( no Linux hackers), would have a
problem with that.
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