Re: [Pan-users] Silly question about make install/uninstall

[Charles Kerr]

Benjamin Esham wrote:

> My question is, is it necessary to keep the entire old pan directory 
> around until I build a new version?  I realize that I'm not using a 
> package manager for this, and that things would be easier if I were, but 
> is there any way to keep track of which files I need to uninstall 
> without the entire pan directory being kept around?

If you need to be /absolutely/ sure, keeping the old source around
for "make uninstall" is the safest choice.

That said, I think you'd be fine just running "make install" each
time to overwrite the old version's files.  The list of files to
install changes /very/ rarely.

Charles