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Re: Sligthly OT: Compiling a given Autoconf-based package on variousUNIX Systems



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.


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Ira Abramov


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