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Re: Sligthly OT: Compiling a given Autoconf-based package on variousUNIX Systems
- Subject: Re: Sligthly OT: Compiling a given Autoconf-based package on variousUNIX Systems
- From: Ira Abramov <lists-linux-il(at-nospam)ira.scso.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:28:57 +0300 (IDT)
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- In-Reply-To: <20010824161709.A29066@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> Maybe because "make install" doesn't attempt to detect conflicts, and so
> running "make uninstall" later might delete something you already had before?
it will not do more than it is expected, the same way as make install
does.
> And maybe because packages may depend on each other, so doing "make
> uninstall" on one package might ruin a whole bunch of other things without
if I wanted conflict checking I would have installed the deb, but I
compiled from source, ergo I think I know what I need, and a quick
but-maybe-dangerous make uninstall is something I like in certain cases.
--
Blue screen of death
Ira Abramov
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