[PLUG] RPM v build from source- removing?
Russell Senior
seniorr at aracnet.com
Thu May 23 23:57:24 UTC 2002
>>>>> "JM" == Miller, Jeremy <JMILLER at ci.albany.or.us> writes:
JM> Wow... I'm gonna have to check that thing out. Thanks! Debian
JM> can be painfully behind on some things sometimes... but the
JM> package system is so nice that I hate to stray from it (but of
JM> course have to). I haven't built many programs that didn't have
JM> an uninstall, but it's a major pain when they don't.
JM> This would help a lot.
I prefer to just install to a local prefix. Then uninstall really is
just an `rm -rf' and the price is just a tiny bit of $PATH
maintenance. Don't have to worry about filename clashes that way,
either. Don't need no steenking "make uninstall".
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