[TriLUG] Mandrake Linux 8.2-beta1 is out!

[H. Wade Minter]

On 30 Jan 2002, John Matthews wrote:

> Being the lazy sort that I am, I have to ask without looking it up
> myself: Does every package provide a "make uninstall" option?
>
> Seems that would be natural, but I had to ask. Otherwise, what good is a
> package system, if you can't remove things?

Yes, there is a "make deinstall".

Upgrades are a little harder than with a binary-package system (RPM, APT,
etc.), but with the cool portupgrade utility, it's a matter of
"portupgrade apache" or whatnot.

The ports system is very cool.

--Wade