On 8/22/05, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Only because there is an active thread about this, and I happen to > > want to remove my existing installation of Xpdf, I am wondering how > > my method compares to the Package User method for uninstalling a > > package. > > > > Here's what I do (note: if there are directories, I must manually > > delete them as I've been too lazy to write a script that does this): > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /home/rml/build > for FILENAME in \ > > `cat Installed/xpdf-3.00pl3/filelist.log`; do rm $FILENAME; done > > > > This is it. Package gone. > > > > None, I think (I don't actually use package-users), except for the > potential slight difference if a package happens to install files with > the same name as another package.
An additional advantage of pkg-user over the above is that two packages can be installed in parallel. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
