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Re: Uninstall
- To: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Uninstall
- From: Steven W Orr <steveo at world dot std dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:13:57 -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
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!?!
Is it maybe appropriate to propose that RPM be more widely used than just
for RedHat distributions?
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
=>
=> In message <9811111319530M.00277@next>you write:
=> >
=> > Hi folks,
=> >
=> > 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.
=>
=>jeff
=>