Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

[Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>]

> 
> make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work. If you want 
> something similiar, but generally has much less trouble, you might want to 
> look at stow (debian package: stow, upstream url: 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/)
> 

Rarely supported meaning by developers? I guess they have to include an uninstall script in the source folder right?

I installed stow and it looks like the right way to go. How is it used? Do you have any experiences with it?

Thanks for your help.

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Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>