Re: dnf remove question

ToddAndMargo via users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/14/26 7:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 6/14/26 6:29 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> On this bug I posted
>>
>> xfce4-screensaver idle/lock failure after xscreensaver removal
>> due to orphaned autostart desktop entries
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488676
>>
>> The closed won't fix response was:
>>
>>     "dnf remove" are not expected to touch user directory. It
>>     can happen that user needs to do some "cleanup" manually.
>>
>> Am I being "blown off" or is this actually the case?  If not
>> the sue, why lease the system entries too?  It feels
>> like a blow off.
> 
> I have no idea what the second line is supposed to say.
> 
> dnf does not touch user directories ever on install or remove.
> I assume that xscreensaver itself sets up the autostart entry when it 
> runs.  I don't see how that autostart entry would block another 
> screensaver when the program doesn't even exist.
> 


Maybe Xfce is doing it.  It would have to  read

/etc/xdg/autostart/xscreensaver-autostart.desktop

which "remove" did not remove.
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