[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Uninstall include dirs.

Ramiro Polla ramiro.polla
Thu Jan 14 21:08:54 CET 2010


2010/1/14 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
> Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
>> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:04:01PM -0200, Ramiro Polla wrote:
>>>> Yes, some people do use make uninstall.
>>>
>>> We definitely have to do something about that!
>>> They threaten our plans for world domination, make uninstall definitely
>>> needs to be modified to alert our emergency squad!
>>
>> Patch attached.
>>
>
> [...]
>
>> +uninstall:
>> + ? ? @echo "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that"
>
> Love it.
>
> The uninstall target is generally a bad idea. ?It can very easily end
> up removing too little or, worse, too much. ?For managing stuff not
> covered by the system package manager, it is much better to use
> something like stow[1] instead.
>
> [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/stow

Well, as long as we have it there, we should make it work properly...
Currently it's leaving behind a few directories.



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