From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ajanta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology (was Re:...Bug in Emacs 21.3.50) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:51:19 GMT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <091220021652087216%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021101520860%ajanta@no.spam> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039636384 17845 80.91.224.249 (11 Dec 2002 19:53:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MCuf-0004cR-00 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:52:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MC15-00025H-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:55:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssrv26.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.10 (Carbon/OS X) Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.37.182.88 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssrv26.news.prodigy.com 1039636279 ST000 67.37.182.88 (Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:51:19 CST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:51:19 CST X-UserInfo1: TSUGW^_D\BU[C_LXXJJL_RTDFZ\@@FXLM@TDOCQDJ@_@FNTCCNSKQFCY@TXDX_WHSVB]ZEJLSNY\^J[CUVSA_QLFC^RQHUPH[P[NRWCCMLSNPOD_ESALHUK@TDFUZHBLJ\XGKL^NXA\EVHSP[D_C^B_^JCX^W]CHBAX]POG@SSAZQ\LE[DCNMUPG_VSC@VJM Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348591 gnu.emacs.help:108006 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4538 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4538 Phillip Lord wrote: > Its much more important that the Makefile, or the autoconf > script, or what ever, is uncluttered than the final file system is. If > you have to put in a lot of stuff, removing the excess files, then you > are trading one for the other. Actually I don't understand this equivalence. Makefiles routinely come with targets like "clean" which presumably deletes files like .log/.o and of course "install". If they could have a few extra targets, like "superclean" or "EnglishOnly", that's a few extra lines. Why is that comparable with the clutter of tens of MB and 100's of files scattered around? If you can have "make install", why not "make uninstall" which would merely remove all the installed files and links? A