From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uninstall rule for top level Makefile Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:51:31 +0000 Message-ID: <200612121251.33051.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200612112214.09735.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=oWrhFPBLWOEFSpvsg+EvlMf7lVoUM+REYFTeE762NtJC6cpqnt+H714MixNXUe7Wnco+uyiwI7+y7QZ+vXSWbgcvkDGYG6kNCFpcViLHTw7kCgxS8QVKtmfZPqL3eTOmXRwA0rTsZ8tP77cYYQilco4bmc7/aPvH2E3H6FgP1to= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gu76k-0003KF-2R for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:51:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751259AbWLLMvj (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:51:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751287AbWLLMvj (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:51:39 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:29930 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751259AbWLLMvi (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:51:38 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1653140uga for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:51:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.216.1 with SMTP id o1mr1140010ugg.1165927896961; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 30sm8639163ugf.2006.12.12.04.51.36; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:51:36 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 2006 December 12 12:25, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/8682 for a > discussion about an uninstall target. I read that thread, but don't see its relevance. Have I missed something? In summary: "uninstall" is not useful in lieu of a package manager, but for developer types (like those on this mailing list) it is useful when you install in the wrong place (as I did just before I felt the need for an uninstall recipe). The thread you linked to seemed to want the uninstall to not have hard-coded filenames. That's what I did. I assume I've missed something in the linked thread - what was it you wanted me to pick up from it? Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE