make uninstall
Alex Merry
alex.merry at kde.org
Fri Jan 30 10:44:23 UTC 2015
Over on kde-frameworks-devel, there have been several requests to bring back
`make uninstall` for KF5 and KF5-based projects.
KDELibs4 used to define this for any dependent projects (it's essentially
`xargs rm < install_manifest.txt` under the hood), and we could easily add it
to KDECMakeSettings (with an option to disable it).
As far as I can see on LXR, no project that uses ECM defines an uninstall
target, so I'm not expecting any conflict for existing projects.
CMake has made a deliberate decision not to provide an uninstall target by
default[0], but that doesn't mean we have to follow suit. Would there be any
great objections to doing this?
Alex
[0]:
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ#Can_I_do_.22make_uninstall.22_with_CMake.3F
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