Cindy Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> writes: > As I tried to say, I'm not sure if that's what you mean about accessing > Based on personal purging experience, those two Evolution config and > data storage locations stayed in place when I removed Evolution for > some forgotten reason. Their data was still safely in place when I > finally reinstalled Evolution a few months ago. PHEW!
Purging Debian packages should never remove user data, unlike modern mobile operating systems (Android and iOS) that delete all app data upon uninstallation. Flatpak follows the same approach with the "uninstall --delete-data" command, but not by default. Perhaps modern Windows "apps" do something similar, I don't know much about it. In traditional Linux distros, the packages are not considered as "app silos" that own their data. Both approaches are valid but cater to different expectations. It's crucial to understand that reinstalling Evolution won't resolve issues if settings or program states are incorrect; Evolution will behave the same way after reinstallation unless the user manually deletes the relevant .config and .local files.
