From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 21:56:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vd4new8qx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > True, as we do not give "uninstall" target. That's what distros are for. Why is this though? I think there are a few distro's out there (call them the hardcore/diehard ones) that don't use packages, instead they rely on keeping the install dir around so that you can 'make uninstall' later. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier