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Re: Uninstall
- To: steveo at world dot std dot com
- Subject: Re: Uninstall
- From: Tudor Hulubei <tudor at cs dot unh dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:30:55 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>, "T.E. Biesinger" <teb at eng dot cam dot ac dot uk>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Organization: University of New Hampshire
- References: <22564.910805016@hurl.cygnus.com><Pine.SGI.4.04.9811120910560.20225-100000@world.std.com>
- Reply-To: Tudor Hulubei <tudor at cs dot unh dot edu>
On Thu, 12 November 1998, Steven W Orr wrote:
> Not to sound effete, but I don't think that tar.gz packaging is intended
> to support an uninstall operation. What does make sense is some sort of
> package manager, like maybe, oh, RPM!?!
I know people that use .tar.gz packages to "simulate" a package
manager w/ make install/uninstall on systems w/o RPM. They keep the
sources of all the packages they install in /usr/src and use `make
uninstall' to uninstall a package when a new version is released.
This is not efficient in terms of disk space, but when that is not an
issue, `make uninstall' can be pretty handy.
Tudor