From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:41:11 +0100 Organization: Le Petomane Appreciation Society Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r8cojqco.fsf@enberg.org> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <84bs3xsyi8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <101220021125583826%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039641514 8723 80.91.224.249 (11 Dec 2002 21:18:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:18:34 +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 18MEFU-0002GK-00 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:18:32 +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 18MD1z-0004bM-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:00:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!h43n2fls32o1112.telia.COM!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h43n2fls32o1112.telia.com (213.65.65.43) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039636701 35219430 213.65.65.43 (16 [125297]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTjYSePS98crIdG5oUueJ+qEexE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348604 gnu.emacs.help:108008 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:4541 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4541 Ajanta writes: > 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. There are dependencies in the source code and the manuals. Simply removing the files is not a very pretty thing to do. > 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? The Emacs Makefiles are created by a configure script. If any part of the config changes, It isn't the same Makefile. You might remove the wrong files then, unless you keep the unpacked and compiled tarball around.