On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr wrote: > In-reply-to: Your message of 14 Jan 1999 23:14:28 -0500." > <86pv8h18bf.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> > > > Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr writes: > > > > > Normally a new install should remove the old one. > > > > An uninstall should attempt to remove the files it installed. An > > install should not make any assumptions about the environment it is > > going into. Casually removing a complete directory tree is a bad idea > > Sorry, I just wanted to clean up the place in this release after the move from > $prefix/share/thot to $prefix/thot. Install won't delete anything in next > release. I suggest you have 2 install options for this. I almost always chuck out the old source distributions of software some time before I get the new stuff, so I don't have the facility to uninstall the previous versions using make uninstall as people seem to expect. (Reason? Disk space.). So having a make target to clear out files known to be in the destination tree from provious releases is a useful idea. But you don't have to make its use mandatory. Hugh hgs@dmu.ac.ukReceived on Friday, 15 January 1999 04:50:38 UTC
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