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sabotage-linux / netbsd-curses

libcurses and dependencies taken from netbsd and brought into a portable shape (at least to musl or glibc)
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Problems uninstalling #31

Closed finnoleary closed 7 years ago

finnoleary commented 7 years ago

The makefile does not contain targets for uninstalling. This requires the user to figure out which files belong to netbsd-curses, and remove them manually.

rofl0r commented 7 years ago

this can be figured out quite easily: make DESTDIR=foo install and you will have the entire tree in foo/. then find foo and you have the list of files. DESTDIR is also the mechanism packagers use to create their distros binary package. if you build/install stuff from source, maybe you want to use that in combination with stow or something similar. so since the install/uninstall is usually handled by 3rd party means (such as distro package manager, or stow), i don't really see a good reason to add an uninstall target, which can potentially harm the user's filesystem, if he makes an error or there's some bug. that's a can of worms i don't intend to open.