[PLUG] C programming

James Campbell james.n.campbell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 20:09:56 UTC 2008


I have encountered more enlightened developers/distributors who create a new
directory as part of their install, to make it easier to uninstall.  Xampp's
version of lampp is the first that comes to mind.

Jim Campbell

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net>wrote:

> >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Young <danielmyoung at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Wonder why folks fear and avoid the 'configure; make; make install'
> >> dance.
>
> Dan> I don't fear 'make install', but I sure appreciate the lowered
> Dan> barrier to entry to trying new software provided by package
> Dan> management that lets me trivially remove it.
>
> I sometimes do 'configure --prefix=/packages/foo ; make ; make
> install', then I can trivially remove it with: 'rm -rf /packages/foo'
>
>
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