From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 02:12:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5703737B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 02:12:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop016.verizon.net (pop016pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F75B43F3F for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 02:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.60.214]) by pop016.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030604091227.MGUI3199.pop016.verizon.net@mac.com>; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 04:12:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3EDDB7F8.8020508@mac.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 05:12:24 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Storey References: <20030603205258.7cb06c79.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <004301c329d4$643953b0$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com> <20030604152043.35ddd1b2.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <20030604152043.35ddd1b2.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.75.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop016.verizon.net from [129.44.60.214] at Wed, 4 Jun 2003 04:12:27 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to put tarball X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:12:29 -0000 Robert Storey wrote: > Thanks Kliment. However, I wonder about uninstalling. If I think there's a > possibility I'd want to uninstall later, don't I need to preserve the directory > for a "make uninstall"? Or is there some other way to uninstall? If you want to be able to uninstall the software, you should strongly consider using or making a port of the software. If you install the software that way, you can do a "pkg_delete _name_" to remove the software without needing to keep the sources around. -- -Chuck