From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 17:26:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files
Message-ID: <7vd4new8qx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080522164300.GA19765@foursquare.net>

Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net> writes:

> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:46:12PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> I do not see how it is _Git_ that breaks itself by repeated installs.  It 
>> detects that there is an Error.pm.  Fine.  You _remove_ it while 
>> installing Git.  Not fine.  Not Git's error.
>
> I guess I take the view that anything _installed_ by git is a part of git.
> If git installs Error.pm, it can't expect the user to keep it around
> if he uninstalls that version of git.

True, as we do not give "uninstall" target.  That's what distros are for.