[Distutils] Uninstalling
Paul Prescod
paulp@ActiveState.com
Sat Mar 10 06:48:01 2001
I'd like to suggest the convention that uninstall logs be placed in an
"uninstall" directory. Python top-level directories are messy enough as
it is. The convention and syntax described here is fine with me:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2001-February/001991.html
All install commands should generate the appropriate logs. It should
also be possible to insert an uninstall/remove_packagename.py for
undoing-anything unusual (e.g. if the install modified an Apache config
file or something). remove_packagename.py functions should be
exceedingly rare but at ActiveState we have taken the position that
people should be able to do arbitrary things in installers and
uninstallers....more on that later...
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