If you write the uninstall hook to drop tables it becomes and option for the user to select. They are presented with an "uninstall" tab on the modules page. After disabling a module the user can click this tab to confirm dropping databases. In short Drupal's default functionality is extremely similar to what you describe.
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On 7/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vasileios Lourdas</b> <<a href="mailto:lourdas_v@yahoo.gr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lourdas_v@yahoo.gr</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>I've been developing a module for a Drupal 5.2 site of mine. The module<br>creates two additional database tables, during the installation procedure.<br><br>My question is: In case I want to disable the module and then uninstall it, I
<br>would like to ask the user if he would like the tables dropped or not. Can<br>something like this be done in the uninstall() hook? What I would like is to<br>prompt the user with an option "Do you want the tables dropped?" and
<br>according to his input, the corresponding action would be performed.<br><br>Regards,<br>--<br># Vasileios Lourdas,<br># Informatics Engineer, Thessaloniki (Greece)<br># <a href="http://www.lourdas.name" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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