From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 49878@debbugs.gnu.org, Abdorhman.Ayman@protonmail.com
Subject: bug#49878: Emacs Tarball Should Include Uninstall Script
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:37:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuk2c3rj.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k0l0jfps.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 05 Aug 2021 14:25:35 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> We have "make uninstall" -- why isn't that what's being requested
> here?
Oh, didn't know about that. Hm... Yeah, I guess it should do the
trick. But it's not included in the tarball, I think? Which was the
request, and I'm still sceptical about doing that, because it looks
pretty dangerous.
>> I've never understood why any user would say "make install" at all --
>> Emacs works just fine without saying "make install". Users should just
>> run it from where it was compiled.
>
> The idea is that after "make install" you can delete the source tree.
>
> Also, without installing, the important executables will not
> necessarily be on PATH, so you cannot easily invoke them without using
> a full absolute file name.
>
> Finally, this is a standard Make target that everyone expects (other
> packages don't always work 100% correctly when invoked from the source
> tree).
That's sort of my point -- there's a ton of software out there that
doesn't work unless you install it first. Emacs is not one of those, so
people think they have to install it to use it.
I wonder whether it'd be practical to put a "Really install? You don't
have to" in the "make install" target. Probably not.
I think what most people who're futzing around with Emacs git would want
is just to have a target that makes some symlinks from /usr/local/bin
(or whatever) to the current build directory so that emacs/emacsclient
lands in $PATH. I don't think the size of the source matters most, so
my guess is that few people delete the source tree after "make install".
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-04 16:45 bug#49878: Emacs Tarball Should Include Uninstall Script Abdorhman Ayman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-05 11:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-05 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-06 9:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-08-06 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-06 11:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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