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Re: Uninstall

To: egcs at cygnus dot com
Subject: Re: Uninstall
From: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
Date: 13 Nov 1998 19:49:44 +0000
References: <Pine.SGI.4.04.9811120910560.20225-100000@world.std.com>

>>>>> "SWO" == Steven W Orr <steveo@world.std.com> writes:

 SWO> Not to sound effete, but I don't think that tar.gz packaging is
 SWO> intended to support an uninstall operation.

Regardless, it's one of the targets required by the GNU standards.

A working `uninstall' has definitely been useful to me on occasion,
especially with other packages I wanted to build install temporarily
(for instance for testing egcs).

References:
- Re: Uninstall
  - From: Steven W Orr

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