[Techtalk] Uninstalling programs in Linux

[Pierre Fortin]

On Wed, 1 May 2002 13:44:43 -0700 Akkana <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:

> This unfriendly habit of dumping 230Mb in the home directory of every
> user of the program is the main reason I try to find alternatives to
> Star/Open Office.  It's a powerful program and does a lot of useful
> stuff, but why can't they just install to a common system directory
> like every other program does?  And why can't they install their program
> during rpm -i instead of waiting until a user tries to run the program?

Actually, if you install SO as root with the "/net" option, each user
install will then share the common code and have a very small ~/officeNN
directory.

Pierre