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Add an 'uninstall' target #43

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josephwright opened this issue Dec 21, 2017 · 4 comments
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Add an 'uninstall' target #43

josephwright opened this issue Dec 21, 2017 · 4 comments
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For reversing install, it would be sensible to allow a quick unininstall. Links to some extent to #6.

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Would it make sense to have a dry run capability for both install and uninstall? I.e. one that simply tells where it would place stuff or delete stuff? (might be too difficult with recursive setups to be worth doing)

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@FrankMittelbach All quite doable: one just has to redirect the copy step. I'll open a separate issue for that.

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@FrankMittelbach For uninstall I did wonder if one should have to say 'definitely do it' (akin to git clean -f), but as we are talking about stuff that presumably can be regenerated, I hope it is safe enough to 'just do it'.

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BTW, sorry for the delay on this and other l3build tasks: I should find the time at the weekend for them. (They are all relatively small tasks.)

Refactor automation moved this from To Do to Done Jan 21, 2018
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