🐈 Task: Refactor ersilia clear command

[DhanshreeA]

Summary

Related to #1262

Ersilia clear command really uninstalls everything and therefore we want to rename it to uninstall to more clearly reflect that. At present it does not remove docker images for models that have been fetched from DockerHub. In addition to fixing that, we want to extend it in a way that ersilia is able to uninstall itself from the user's system.

Objective(s)

• [ ] Refactor clear to uninstall in the command's definition. This would typically involve refactoring everything from the class name (Clearer -> Uninstaller), function names, updating the help text for the command, etc.
• [ ] This command can potentially use ersilia delete --all (ref: #1265) to delete all models, including the dockerized models as well.
• [ ] Remove the ersilia installation as well. This could be a bit tricky depending on how ersilia was installed.

For now, the first two objectives are straightforward to address - and we can discuss approaches and edge cases for the last objective pertaining to ersilia uninstall.

Documentation

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[ProfessionalCaddie]

Hello @DhanshreeA , I would like to work on this as well as think about the edge cases. Would the uninstall be mostly difficult because of the different operating systems or are there other factors as well?

[miquelduranfrigola]

Hi @DhanshreeA Do you think there is a way to wrap all of this into a pip uninstall ersilia and/or conda uninstall ersilia instead of ersilia uninstall? I mean, uninstalling everything (i.e. deleting docker images, removing the eos folder, etc.) using the pip and conda commands (depending on how ersilia was initially installed) would make a lot of sense, but I am not sure if it is even possible to do.

[DhanshreeA]

Hi @DhanshreeA Do you think there is a way to wrap all of this into a pip uninstall ersilia and/or conda uninstall ersilia instead of ersilia uninstall? I mean, uninstalling everything (i.e. deleting docker images, removing the eos folder, etc.) using the pip and conda commands (depending on how ersilia was initially installed) would make a lot of sense, but I am not sure if it is even possible to do.

I will have to look into this - especially if we have to add anything as package data that we don't usually do during install time.

[GemmaTuron]

Hi @ProfessionalCaddie

Thanks for your interest! We are opening these issues for the Outreachy applicants that are starting next week, so we will assign those to Outreachy applicants only at the moment. The Ersilia maintainers team is only three of us and we cannot provide support to too many new contributors at the same time. I hope you understand! Once the Outreachy application period is complete (November), we will be back to having space to onboard new open source contributors.