Re: FW: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

[Eric Siegerman]

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:30:37AM -0700, Masterson, David wrote:
> An option (or environment variable) setting for "mkuninstalldirs"?  And
> perhaps the default "do nothing"?  Or simply print out "I'd like to remove
> $x dir" and leave it to the sysadmin to decide?

If you *must* implement this, then make it an option only, NOT an
environment variable, and absolutely make the default be to do
nothing.  There should be *no* way for something to delete my
/usr/local without my explicitly having told it to!

The correct way to handle this is not to try to do the Right
Thing (which, as others have pointed out, is impossible in
theory), but to make Automake work better with stow, which makes
the Right Thing trivial.

--

|  | /\
|-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|  |  /
to me, Charlie Brown represented the courage to be sincere in the face of
ridicule. he was NOT a loser.  
thank you, Mr. Schulz.
        - Robert C. Mayo