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AchetaGames / Epic-Asset-Manager

A frontend to Assets purchased on Epic Games Store
https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.github.achetagames.epic_asset_manager
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Add "Uninstall" for engine #240

Open RokeJulianLockhart opened 1 year ago

RokeJulianLockhart commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. My rationale is available at https://github.com/8go/matrix-commander/issues/68#issue-1237645245.

Describe the solution you'd like Enable https://docs.github.com/discussions for this repository.

Describe alternatives you've considered Another kind of forum, like Discourse.

Additional context

For instance, I'd like to ask how to delete an installed instance of UE5:

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But don't know where to ask.

aknarts commented 1 year ago

Somehow I thought I did enable it :). The thing is I do not consider Github to be my primary source of questions so probably never checked.

As to your question... you do have to manually open the directory and delete the engine version in question... The button to do it for you can be certainly added but destructive actions are just that... destructive.. with potential of catastrophic failure.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 1 year ago

@aknarts, https://github.com/AchetaGames/Epic-Asset-Manager/issues/240#issuecomment-1677005516

As to your question... you do have to manually open the directory and delete the engine version in question... The button to do it for you can be certainly added but destructive actions are just that... destructive.. with potential of catastrophic failure.

Can you elaborate what you mean by "destructive actions are just that... destructive.. with potential of catastrophic failure"? I just want to delete the engine. That shouldn't in any way be dangerous to anything except, well, the engine, since it'll be deleted.

aknarts commented 1 year ago

I am eluding to screwups by other software like Steam where the entire drive got deleted when uninstalling something :). Sure the delete/uninstall button can be added.. there just needs to be some care taken while doing it.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 1 year ago

@aknarts, https://github.com/AchetaGames/Epic-Asset-Manager/issues/240#issuecomment-1678706567

I am eluding to screwups by other software like Steam where the entire drive got deleted when uninstalling something :).

I wasn't aware of such a thing. However, my knowledge of this launcher is that it doesn't interact with Steam in any manner that would provide Steam reason to know of nor control any software it downloads.

Sure the delete/uninstall button can be added.. there just needs to be some care taken while doing it.

Good to hear. Many thanks.

aknarts commented 1 year ago

That was just an example of screwup that happened in the past when some other software did destructive actions, Steam has nothing to do with EAM as of now...