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Re: [PATCH] Uninstall-target for Makefile
- To: Florian Bruhin <me _at_ the _minus_ compiler _dot_ org>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uninstall-target for Makefile
- From: Thorsten Wißmann <re06huxa _at_ cip _dot_ cs _dot_ fau _dot_ de>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:42:08 +0100
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:07:05AM +0100, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> so.. I searched for a bug which didn't exist, then I figured out I
> accidentally installed herbstluftwm to /usr/local/bin via make install
> at some point... Stupid me.
>
> So I implemented a "make uninstall". By default it only removes the
> directories which are unique to herbstluftwm (so e.g. it won't attempt
> to remove /usr/local/bin aka. $(BINDIR), but it will remove
> /etc/xdg/herbstluftwm aka. $(CONFIGDIR).
In my opinion, on a system with a proper package management system,
there is no need for an uninstall target. But some users still want to
"uninstall" software manually... so this is merged to master as:
4f98f1d Add an 'uninstall' target to the Makefile
Thorsten