Re: dnf remove question

ToddAndMargo via users writes:

> On 6/14/26 6:29 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>
> It just occurred to me that if it in not "dnf remove's"
> responsibility to remove thing out the user's directories,
> why did it put them there when it did "dnf install"
> in the first place.
>
> This feels more and more like a blow off.

I find it highly unlikely that "it put them there" in the first place.

An RPM package contains an explicit list of filenames that the package  
installs.

To do what you suggested would require at least one of the following to be  
true:

1) There's a super-secret RPM feature that specifies pathnames relative to  
every user's home directory that each file in the RPM package gets  
installed into, and this super-secret RPM feature remained undiscovered for  
quiet some time, even though, apparently, packages use it all the time.

2) Every Linux machine in the world has the same set of home directories.

Which one of the above looks more likely to you?
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