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Re: Uninstall
- To: steveo at world dot std dot com
- Subject: Re: Uninstall
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:10:21 -0700
- cc: "T.E. Biesinger" <teb at eng dot cam dot ac dot uk>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.SGI.4.04.9811120910560.20225-100000@world.std.com>you write:
> 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!?!
.tar.gz has nothing to do with uninstallation -- the Makefile targets for
uninstall have not been updated in years.
> Is it maybe appropriate to propose that RPM be more widely used than just
> for RedHat distributions?
We don't even officially support rpms. You're welcome to use the contributed
RPM code, but until RPM is *MUCH* more widely available we'll stick with
source tarballs and make.
jeff