Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello, Peter!

> That's not quite it either. If I install something into
> /opt/foo-0.99/{bin,lib,include} and then it only removes the bin, lib, and
> include parts, then it's arguably being less than helpful.

IMHO you install something into /opt/foo-0.99 it's because you don't trust
your packaging system and want to remove things manually when you need to.

/opt is not very popular on systems with good package management.

Pavel Roskin