scoop uninstall scoop shouldn't remove persist data

[ishanarora]

Uninstalling scoop deletes all persist data. This is not intuitive given that uninstalling an app won't delete the app's persist data. As you can probably guess, I just lost all all my persist data in an attempt to install scoop from scratch. 🤦‍♂️

[John3]

maybe a option would be have "remove" just for delete the app and "uninstall" for delete everything?

[Ash258]

@John3 There is option already. --purge is your "uninstall", but he is talking about whole scoop, not just some application. Scoop does not respect this option.

@r15ch13 Could this line be conditionial based on used purge argument?

https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/blob/d28a12fe5049c0146ec80216f047ab8a60d489c7/bin/uninstall.ps1#L68

Update

Forgot this line appending $purge

https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/blob/571e65953e73f78fa1c43e327275afef0d705d61/libexec/scoop-uninstall.ps1#L33

[r15ch13]

@Ash258 yes, or it just deletes apps, buckets, cache, modules and shims leaving the persist directory.

[Ash258]

So basically adding, purge parameter, and running if ($purge) {Get-ChildItem $scoopdir -Exclude 'persist' | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force} same for global.

[r15ch13]

Yep 👍