Re: [UUG/MLUG] un-installing .tar'd apps

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Scott Greathouse wrote:

> Once you
> make install
> you are a little bit screwed, because things are copied from the
> source directory to other places, however, unlike Windows, the
> destinations of those files should always be the same and the README
> file should tell you where they went. So, no you can't just rf -rf
> <directory where tar.gz app is installed> once you've run make
> install.

Yup, this can be a mess.  There really was a reason why people went to all
the trouble to invent modern package management tools like rpm and
dselect. :-)  Some packages with install Makefile targets also try to
have an "uninstall" target, but things can get very dicey pretty quickly.
People get annoyed with rpm dependency checking, but I can assure you that
"make uninstall" probably isn't nearly as good, and you get what you
asked for with "rm -rf *" :-)

jking