> You may or may not have noticed my qualifier ("Last time I tried the
> Slackware approch [...] but things may have changed"), despite your
> having quoted it. It seems that things have indeed changed.
>
> (But I always did like Slackware, anyway.)I'm not quite sure what you mean.
As far as I know, the 'Slackware approach' (I assume by this you mean using makepkg to create your own tarball package) does not depend on source packages furnishing functional 'remove' targets (by this I assume you mean the presence of a make uninstall).
All installpkg does is to copy a bunch of files to the filesystem (plus run an optional install script), and all removepkg does is to remove the exact set of files installpkg installed (plus run an optional uninstall script) for that package. Simple, neat, just the way I want it and nothing more.
A properly written 'make install' functionality is what's important. It should properly put ALL needed files under any arbitrary directory prefix you specify for installation (i.e. /pkgcreate/usr/local instead of /usr/local). The make uninstall target is completely unnecessary as removepkg cleans up everything for you and, in fact, I have no idea if source packages today have better make uninstall scripts (in fact, I suspect they still don't).
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