Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-11 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:49 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:39 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:59 -0700, Nigel Tao wrote: > > > On 4/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > support 'make uninstall' > > > > > > Should this be

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-10 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:19 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:03 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:17 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: > > > A policy request: > > > > > > It would be a good thing if all applications available from > > >

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:03 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:17 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: > > A policy request: > > > > It would be a good thing if all applications available from > > f.g.o were required to support 'make uninstall' > > > > M

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-10 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:17 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: > A policy request: > > It would be a good thing if all applications available from > f.g.o were required to support 'make uninstall' > > Most applications found on f.g.o do support 'make uninstall'. There a

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-10 Thread Ikke
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 08:00 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Guys, keep an eye on this wonderful page: > > http://jhbuild.bxlug.be/ > > and do inspect what's failing and try to report/fix it. This is a really cool and useful project! A nice addition would be to generate an RSS feed from the fail

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-10 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:59 -0700, Nigel Tao wrote: > > On 4/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > support 'make uninstall' > > > > Should this be an upcoming Gnome Goal?? > > That's pretty hard to make a goal of it, as this ca

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-10 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi, On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:06 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. writes: > > Thank you, Andrew. I will file the appropriate bug reports. > > > > As a maintainer of the GARNOME project, I find 'make uninstall' to be a > > necessary feature when exercising updates. Installin

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-10 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:39 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:59 -0700, Nigel Tao wrote: > > On 4/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > support 'make uninstall' > > > > Should this be an upcoming Gnome Goal?? > > That's pretty hard to make a goal of

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-10 Thread Ruben Vermeersch
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:59 -0700, Nigel Tao wrote: > On 4/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > support 'make uninstall' > > Should this be an upcoming Gnome Goal?? That's pretty hard to make a goal of it, as this can break over time. A tinderbox doing nothing but continuou

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-10 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. writes: > Thank you, Andrew. I will file the appropriate bug reports. > > As a maintainer of the GARNOME project, I find 'make uninstall' to be a > necessary feature when exercising updates. Installing a later version of > an application on top of an earlier installed versi

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-09 Thread Nigel Tao
On 4/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > support 'make uninstall' Should this be an upcoming Gnome Goal?? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-09 Thread Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.
Thank you, Andrew. I will file the appropriate bug reports. As a maintainer of the GARNOME project, I find 'make uninstall' to be a necessary feature when exercising updates. Installing a later version of an application on top of an earlier installed version is just asking for trouble. -Joseph

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-09 Thread Andrew Sobala
Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: Is that a polite way of saying that it is a policy that 'make uninstall' should work in order for an app to be hosted by f.g.o? That sort of policy would be fairly unenforcable. The point of ftp.gnome.org is to distribute components of the GNOME suite - althoug

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-09 Thread Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.
Is that a polite way of saying that it is a policy that 'make uninstall' should work in order for an app to be hosted by f.g.o? -Joseph On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:19 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On 4/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL

Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On 4/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A policy request: > > It would be a good thing if all applications available from > f.g.o were required to support 'make uninstall' > > Most applications found on f.g.o do support 'make uninstall'. There are > some that

policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

2006-04-09 Thread Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.
A policy request: It would be a good thing if all applications available from f.g.o were required to support 'make uninstall' Most applications found on f.g.o do support 'make uninstall'. There are some that do not. Thoughts??? -Joseph -- joseph_sacco [at] comcast [