[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 135520] new install of 7.0.0 causes endless restarts

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135520

--- Comment #4 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to cbolin from comment #3)
> Respectfully, I disagree.  I'm not talking about reinstalls or upgrades.  
> 
> The way it is now there is no way for a user to remove all LibreOffice? 
> Isn't that what a full uninstall in any context means?
> 
> In any case there should be the *option* for a complete uninstall.  Perhaps
> a checkbox.  Clearly there are times when someone would want to completely
> remove any product.  
> 
> How is that in any way a disruption?

Again, no. User settings in LibreOffice are completely separate from the
program itself. And it would be even impossible to remove the settings.

User profile is *not* created by installation. It is created by the *program*
(typically on its first start). So installer can't remove what it didn't
create.

The default placement of the settings (under the user's profile, i.e. AppData)
is just a default. User may create a program profile anywhere user wants; and
start LibreOffice using a command line to use that different profile. So user
profile is kind of data created by LibreOffice, in a sense like documents it
creates. (And note that that includes user customizations, like dictionaries or
templates; the profile of LibreOffice is way more complex than any typical
thing of other programs, with its thousands settings, and even more things like
extensions, etc. The profile complexity is what makes it prone to corruption,
unfortunately). No program that I know has an option to remove documents; and
for LibreOffice, this is the equivalent to removing documents.

The profile is specific to user. There may be several users on system; and
uninstall will be run on behalf of one user, so it will even be unable to know
where all the profiles could be created, or access them - because of
permissions. And when uninstalled, there would be nothing on system that could
remove the files after those users log on.

All in all, there is no way to remove profiles on program removal, and that
would be unreasonable task. I don't think we should even try to invent that
mechanism, because it is absolutely incompatible with the profile concept in
LibreOffice, no matter how it might look similar to some other programs (which
anyway necessarily suffer from at least part of mentioned problems btw).

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