On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:11:51PM +0300, Angel Tsankov wrote: > > It seems to me that the best way to go (for a Linux novice like me) is to > use the uninstall target of makefiles, if one is available. > Generally speaking, the doer of smth should also be the one who can best > undo it. Anything else is second guessing... And guessing smth is not like > being certain of it. > Anyway, thanks a lot for the replies! I just wanted to get a notion of what > possibilites exist and how reliable they are.
For LFS (as distinct from BLFS), I don't see why you would want to uninstall (pruning a built system to remove excess documentation and generally slim it down is a different issue). Most of what is in LFS is not optional - from time to time you may upgrade a package, but often it will have a circular dependency on itself - remove it before installing a new version and you will not be able to build the new version (this is generally true for the packages in chapter 5). And if you try to uninstall the old version after installing the new one, it will usually remove the new version's files where the names are the same (executables, possibly libraries). A couple of years ago, there was definitely a problem with 'make uninstall' for one of the LFS packages, search the archives if you care. Remember that most people here do not run 'make uninstall' so it is not well-tested for any package. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
