From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tribhuvan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:38:59 GMT Organization: Optimum Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E0258E7.4040404@rcn.com> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <091220021652087216%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021101520860%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <87u1hjdwta.fsf@hurd.crasseux.com> <121220021324043990%ajanta@no.spam> <171220021132381961%ajanta@no.spam> <3DFFA457.1020103@rcn.com> <844r9b3exh.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040341342 26942 80.91.224.249 (19 Dec 2002 23:42:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:42:22 +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 18PAJ2-00070K-00 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:42:20 +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 18PAHq-00086W-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:41:06 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newsprint.netaxs.com!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news.webusenet.com!news01.optonline.net!news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.189.235.22 Original-X-Trace: news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net 1040341139 24.189.235.22 (Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:38:59 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:38:59 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:349334 gnu.emacs.help:108313 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:4842 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4842 David Masterson wrote: > Or autoconf/automake... > >> You could try "make -n uninstall > /tmp/foo" right after "make >> install". Maybe then /tmp/foo contains the necessary info. >Exactly. My contention is that /tmp/foo should be installed right >along with everything else. Just how commonly available is the "make -n uninstall > /tmp/foo" in src distributions anyway. Actually, because of my ignorance of it I never used it. If it is widely incorporated, then it may be a matter of putting an option in ./configure like: --enable-uninstall=/tmp/foo (or /var/pkg/foo) which would be comparatively easier than developing a pkg-manager which is really an OS dependent thing anyway. The configure option could trigger the "make -n uninstall" command to occur right after "make install" - and would increase awareness of the option by placing it in an obvious place (via: ./configure --help).