[2010-11-05 20:46] Peter Maydell <[email protected]>
> markus schnalke wrote:
> >the attached patch tries to fix Debian bug #551704 [0].
> >
> >[0] http://bugs.debian.org/551704
> >
> >Knowing that a uninstall-mh command is surely impossible to create, I
> >extended the man page instead. I also fixed the CONTEXT section there.
>
> Well, you could undo the effects:
> * if there's no profile file, we're not installed anyway
> * if there is, then it will tell us where the Mail
> directory is
That's the point I missed.
> * so rm -rf Mail (with a big fat warning!)
> * and delete the profile file
>
> In fact (modulo the warning and checking we were installed in
> the first place!) it's a shell one-liner:
> rm -rf "${MH:-~/.mh-profile}" "$(mhpath +)"
(The tilde does not get expanded this way.)
This assumes that $MH and $MHCONTEXT are still the same. Seems as if
we always need to assume this.
But yes, you are right that it's not as impossible as I thought. Also
I didn't realize that it is very clever to use nmh's own tools as
helpers. *shame*
> I'm not totally sure we want to provide an easy way for
> the user to blow away their mail, though :-)
We should at least not remove any mail.
> However, if you're going to document in the manpage
> how to clean things up you should document the
> correct way that doesn't rely on assumptions about
> the directory name and so on.
Right.
A second try for removing only what install-mh(1) installs:
ctx="${MHCONTEXT:-`mhparam context`}"
case "$ctx" in
'/*') rm "$ctx" ;;
*) rm "`mhpath +`/$ctx" ;;
esac
rmdir "`mhpath +`"
rm "$MH" || rm ~/.mh_profile
Or do you think we should only provide prose text?
meillo
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