From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 17 16: 2:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6F937B400 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:02:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1I01Og20036; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:01:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Message-Id: <200202180001.g1I01Og20036@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Alan E Organization: Geeksrus.NET To: Ken Stailey , klh@panix.com Subject: Re: klh10 and its port submissions Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:01:23 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: FreeBSD ports list References: <3C6FC9EF.9040900@surfbest.net> <3C703170.5040502@surfbest.net> In-Reply-To: <3C703170.5040502@surfbest.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday 17 February 2002 17:40, Ken Stailey wrote: > Ports have to do "pkg_delete" and "make uninstall." How can cleanup be > done if the installation allows aribtrary files to be created after > "make install"? We really need to spend time thinking about all the > aspects. It uninstalls what it installs. It's not responsible for uninstalling something that a *user* installed later. See graphics/mplayer's "install*user" script for a example of this in principle. -- Alan Eldridge "Dave's not here, man." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message