make uninstall misses a few things
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Marlin |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
First off, I wish there were somewhere that I could express just how grateful I am that this file manager exists. It is exactly what I want in a file manager, and doesn't come with / force me into all kinds of things that I don't want.
I always tell configure to set my prefix to a temporary directory somewhere so I can see how well something uninstalls when I don't have a readily available Arch package for it.
In doing so on this, I found that it leaves files all over PREFIX-DIR/share such as a .desktop and locale files
I don't really know how uninstalling is supposed to handle these, but I would assume when you run "make uninstall" you want it to remove everything it installs with "make install" which it fails to in this instance.
On a side note that I'm not sure is a bug / is a bug with marlin; when compiling using the latest git version of the vala compiler, marlin segfaults on startup. If requested, I'll file this as a separate bug with a backtrace I have saved.
Thanks again for the awesome file manager. +1 doing things right.
Max and I have been discussing this new file manager on our IRC network for that last 20 minutes and both of us really love it. I would also like to mention a +1 on this bug as I attempted to do the same thing and resulted in leftover files when executing `make uninstall`.