FEATURE REQUEST: Uninstall script should be created by AutoMake.

[Hans Deragon <hans at deragon dot biz>]

Greetings.


  Automake offers the target:  uninstall  This is great, but not enough. 
Following Eric's rant (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/luxury-part-deux.html ; 
nice weapon he gave me :) ), I believe that AutoMake should build an executable 
uninstall script.

  When a user downloads a tarball, he runs make install and the software is 
installed.  But currently, he must keep the uncompressed tarball if he ever 
wishes to perform "make uninstall".  Thus, the user cannot clear the disk space 
associated with the tarball.

  Automake should create a script that simply contains all the "rm" commands 
and have it installed with the other binaries.  If the package is name gplot for 
example, the uninstall script could be named gplot.uninstall and reside in the 
same directory as the binary gplot reside.

  This option could be optional and off by default, but should become the 
standard in the long run.  After installing a tarball, one should not have to 
keep it around.


Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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