Re: Add uninstall target to Makefile

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 16, 2005, 23:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509170135110.13233@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vu0gkfwak.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:08:10AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> >
> >> Of course package manager will do better at this, but it is useful to be
> >> able to uninstall.  However, I don't think Martin's external script with
> >> all the filenames hardcoded is the right approach.  There are $(PROG)
> >> and $(SCRIPTS) which already know all these filenames.
> >
> > I would agree with that.  Definitely better to use the same Makefile
> > vars used for install to do the uninstall.
> 
> True.  That is something I could live with.

Well, IMHO a package manager beats an uninstall target any time of a second. I know that I chose to checkinstall all projects I compiled myself so that I can be sure that no old version keeps lying around taking space for nothin'.

Ciao, Dscho