Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by vbezhenar 71 days ago
How do you know that you need to remove:

    /usr/local/bin/xxx symlinks
    /etc/hosts modifications
    /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.docker.vmnetd
after you moved your Docker folder to Bin.

That's only system files, there are also dozens of other files in $HOME.

I guess you can do `find / -name 'docker'` and `grep -iR docker /` but that's a bit ridiculous.

1 comments

You can check these things out periodically. Probably a good exercise to understand parts of the OS if any of it seems unfamiliar. At least they are there, standardized locations where these sorts of tools might leave these sorts of crumbs behind. There are reasons why things go where they do. Seems byzantine until you write your own tooling and realize a lot of it is convenience functionality.