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Re: Uninstall
Steven W Orr averred (on Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:13:57AM -0500):
| 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!?!
What does the *.tar.gz format have to do with the question? Removing
file.tar.gx is a no-brainer. The question was providing an 'uninstall'
target in the Makefile(s) of egcs.
| On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
| =>
| => In message <9811111319530M.00277@next><someone> write:
| => >
| => > how can I uninstall the latetest version of ecgs - 'make uninstall'
| => > is not supported!?
| =>make uninstall does not currently work. We'd like to support it. If you
| =>could contribute some fixes to this code it would be greatly appreciated.
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