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Remove cache dir when uninstalling

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by inspecting the installation script's --uninstall path and how it handles ~/.cache/pypoetry. Check whether existing tests cover uninstall behavior. Done means the requested cache-removal behavior or option is implemented consistently and verified for the uninstall flow.

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Description

Environment
  • Ubuntu 22
Feature Request

When I uninstall Poetry using the script (--uninstall), the cache dir ~/.cache/pypoetry was not removed by default.

Maybe we should provide an option to remove the cache dir, or just remove them with --uninstall option itself.

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Python
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