From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sverre Rabbelier" Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 23:56:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20080517011614.GA11029@foursquare.net> <20080521222150.GA29696@foursquare.net> <7vzlqjz2wz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080521235647.GA21340@foursquare.net> <20080522164300.GA19765@foursquare.net> <7vd4new8qx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: sverre@rabbelier.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Chris Frey" , "Johannes Schindelin" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Junio C Hamano" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 22 23:57:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JzImY-00041f-PE for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 22 May 2008 23:57:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761568AbYEVV4F (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 17:56:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760379AbYEVV4F (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 17:56:05 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.171]:5132 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760940AbYEVV4B (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 17:56:01 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so234939wfd.4 for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 14:56:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=FXYv8w97nks8vxgTGbBrbTb3UI6+WFoEnfFsUWpsiTo=; b=pbIKchVPZBm/WK7sMT4yh8xJHKd2mjApySg0RJXD+UwJjk6nxX5MiwJzpAsqTj+cWoKiyDWKtesTOT8GwDey2qPuLzveKb8zCgVpkU/ECwy/ZHCStAoJeEFR1Qd7FE6eo7O9YPmpysrWF5D1ydGrvf3nzB9BGKspfnUXWEqcWAM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Y36p9C2tg3NkzK+TpBZsqkgxZtbE5HUpS7tu9cZnQgI2fqz3EYce8Iv5+Qc5NYlAm1VGMDwZUKlRymFrgeeLKxqsC6K36v72HbOWoS2C2RIcO9reO9otZ61pqDjc0R5hnANO2Sm6aTJSZp14bi/f2rTvu+H7HFfeBuEd8/q8b3s= Received: by 10.142.214.5 with SMTP id m5mr246386wfg.342.1211493361013; Thu, 22 May 2008 14:56:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.33.6 with HTTP; Thu, 22 May 2008 14:56:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vd4new8qx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > True, as we do not give "uninstall" target. That's what distros are for. Why is this though? I think there are a few distro's out there (call them the hardcore/diehard ones) that don't use packages, instead they rely on keeping the install dir around so that you can 'make uninstall' later. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier