Re: square bullets

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:42:42 -0700, Joel Kolstad wrote:
"Keith" <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1eb98c4963eeff6989a0e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IFF you know what registry keys to edit. The registry is simply a
horrible design. Note that no special tools ae needed for Linux
(or OS/2). Just delete the programs that aren't wanted.

Umm... are you forgetting all those .fubar_rc files that litter a user's home
directory in *NIX? There are plenty of times when they're not documented
either and -- unlike Window's registry or even .Ini files! -- there's no
agreed upon standard for what their format ought to be; every software author
has to "roll their own" standard or use one of the dozens of different
implementations that are available out there. Yecch!

The various Linux desktops even have a hard time agreeing how a software
installation routine is supposed to register a new program with their "Start"
menus. Uggh... But it is this "registration" that makes it ill-advised to
just delete a program executable in Windows OR Linux -- when you install a
control of software package, you're telling the system, "I'm ready to run and
interoperate with you!" and just deleting the executable doesn't remove that
"annoucement" (a registry entry in Wndows, some .config file in *NIX);
obviously not a good idea for a robust system.

Apparently you've never heard of RPM's or Slackware packages. There's even
a utility that comes with Slackware that will make a "real" Slackware
package from source. You still do "configure", and "make", but then you
run "checkinstall", which creates the package and installs it. It keeps
all of its records in /var/log/packages, which has a file for every
package installed on the system, telling removepkg exactly what to delete.

And about your .fubar_rc files, if I uninstall fubar, and it doesn't clean
up its own config files, at least I know where they are to delete them
myself.

Editing Window's registry is equivalent to playing russian roulette
with your data.

That's why they make it easy to back up, and the system even does so
automatically for you at potentially "dangerous" spots (such as when you
install a new device driver).

I just don't trust any S/W that does stuff without telling me what it's
doing. Or worse, does stuff I didn't _tell_ it to do.

Thanks,
Rich

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