Re: pkg_delete libreoffice leaves /usr/pkg/libreoffice* directory

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 07:33:18PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > Well, earlier today I actually used libreoffice.  And now I'm trying to
> > remove it, but the /usr/pkg/libreoffice-5.0.1.2/ directory has not been
> > correctly removed by pkg_delete.
>
>
> > /usr/pkg/libreoffice-5.0.1.2/program:
> > total 36
> > -rw-r--r--  1 paul  wheel   5915 Sep  8 20:08 pythonloader.pyc
> > -rw-r--r--  1 paul  wheel  15350 Sep  8 20:08 uno.pyc
> > -rw-r--r--  1 paul  wheel  12533 Sep  8 20:08 unohelper.pyc
>
> Interesting, why is paul allowed to write there?

paul is a member of wheel (and of several other groups)

> The .pyc files are created by python as speed up when you access the
> .py files, or when you explicitly compile them.

I know next-to-nothing about python and have never explictly referenced 
any of these files.

Is it reasonable for these files to survive a package deletion?

I also checked to make sure that there are no "complaints" from the 
pkg_delete command - it seems that a failure-to-delete is a silent 
error.  I would expect it to at least report something similar to

=====================================================================
The following directories are no longer being used by dbus-1.10.0,
and they can be removed if no other packages are using them:

        /var/db/dbus
=====================================================================


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