🚀 go-pugleaf

Ian Jefferson (ijeff@alfred.carleton.ca) wrote:
: > sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
: 
: >This is why I prefer programs that are tar.Z's or zips to those that
: >are packages.  I can start one or more gnutars or unzips and stuff in
: >background.  Installer has a raft of mouse clicks and dreck.
: 
: Of course its a bit difficult to uninstall zips and tars whereas you can
: simply press the delete button on installer! I'm still trying to
: uninstall bits of Who's calling from wherever it resides on disk(s).
: 

Yeah, that one bothered me too.  Most tar.Z's would unpack into a self
contained subdirectory, but on occasion, one would dump all over my Untested
directory, and I'd be picking bits out here and there for a while.

But I can do this to uninstall a tar. (Assuming the original tar is still
around)

rm -ifr `tar -t tarfile.tar ` 

I don't have a good answer for miscreant Makefiles that stuff things
here and there. 
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