Re: makefile uninstall somewhat aggressive?

[Hugh Sasse]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jeff Kingston wrote:

> > Conventionally among GNU stuff LIBDIR is /usr/local/lib, and
> > if anyone installed it there, they'd be rather shocked after an
> > uninstall.
> 
> After reading this and the various responses, I've changed the
> name of symbol LIBDIR in the Lout makefile to LOUTLIBDIR for
> the next release.

Thank you.
> 
> The comment at the top of the file does say very clearly that
> this directory will be created.  But we all know that no-one

Yes, it does, I read it.  But it does not state that it should not
exist before, what will happen if it does, or that it will be
completely removed on uninstall.
 
> reads documentation.

> 
> Jeff
> 
        Hugh