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Date:      Wed, 04 Jun 2003 05:12:24 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: where to put tarball
Message-ID:  <3EDDB7F8.8020508@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030604152043.35ddd1b2.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
References:  <20030603205258.7cb06c79.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <004301c329d4$643953b0$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com> <20030604152043.35ddd1b2.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>

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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




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