From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: 19 Dec 2002 23:16:27 +0900 Organization: Global Online Japan Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87y96m3xhg.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> 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 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040309232 12491 80.91.224.249 (19 Dec 2002 14:47:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:47:12 +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 18P1x7-0003FA-00 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:47:09 +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 18P1mC-0002Vb-0B for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:35:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tc-2-207.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp Original-X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1040307391 32548 203.216.25.207 (19 Dec 2002 14:16:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:16:31 +0000 (UTC) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:349289 gnu.emacs.help:108295 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:4825 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4825 David Masterson writes: > > 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. ... and also wrote in a different message: > 2. To allow for source removal, "make install" should install an > uninstaller (like this: "make -n uninstall > uninstaller; install > uninstaller"). Those seem like pretty reasonable ideas; in more concrete form, perhaps they could be added to the GNU programming standards or something. E.g.: * What would the `/tmp/foo' file be called really? Something like `/usr/share/foo/files'? * What would the uninstaller program be called? [Presumably uninstall-PACKAGE] -Miles -- [|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? [iddt] nurg, that's the goal