Re: [PATCH] Uninstall rule for top level Makefile

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 2006 December 12 14:15, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> The uninstall target _only_ solves the case you mentioned: when you
> installed Git in the wrong place. But then it is fragile: if you put the
> new path into config.mak, or you provided the PREFIX on the command line,
> and possibly do not remember what it was, the uninstall goes wrong.

Absolutely.  I agree entirely.  The only reason I raised it was because I had 
cause to need it.  The quickest way I found was just to write the missing 
recipe.  As I'd written it, I thought I'd share.  As you say, it has no other 
use than unpicking a stupid "install", done by a butterbrain like myself :-)

> But then, I do not care at all about that target being in the Makefile or
> not. I'll just ignore it, just as almost everybody else.

Until I needed it; I didn't care that it wasn't there.  Even then "need" is 
perhaps too strong a word.  It was handy.  That's it.  If there are strong 
moral objections to it; it doesn't bother me.



Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE