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Re: Uninstall
- To: Tudor Hulubei <tudor at cs dot unh dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Uninstall
- From: Steven W Orr <steveo at world dot std dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:40:11 -0500
- Cc: "T.E. Biesinger" <teb at eng dot cam dot ac dot uk>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: steveo at world dot std dot com
I disagree. The concept of an uninstall target would by definition only be
correct of the version that is *installed* happened to be the same as the
one that is being *uninstalled*. For one thing, rpm solves that problem.
What I'm trying to express here is that it would be nice to have *correct*
functionality, not another hack that pretty much gets the job
accomplished.
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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Tudor Hulubei wrote:
=>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.