Linux standards
David Kramer
david at thekramers.net
Thu Jun 20 22:01:31 EDT 2002
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, John Chambers wrote:
> (Of course, there's the ongoing problem that tar and a makefile seem
> to be both simpler and more versatile than all the vendors' fancy
> installation packages ... ;-)
Here's my big problem with tarballs:
there's almost never a
make uninstall
I could live without the whole rpm database thing if it were easy to
uninstall software installed from tarball/makefile. Not hard to do
either. For the author, that is.
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