How to correctly uninstall hg when installed with "make install"

Wed Jan 21 12:57:14 UTC 2009

Isaac Jurado wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Marko Käning <mk362 at mch.osram.de> wrote:
>   
>> Always the same... All these installs clutter your system without
>> caring about how to clean away the mess if something goes wrong or
>> needs an update...
>>     
>
> If autoconf and the rest of dump took care of it, package managers would
> probably not exist today.
This is a pet-peeve of mine, but it isn't peculiar to Mercurial.  Most 
packages lack an "uninstall" option.

However, I thought automake *did* support uninstall target generation.  
cmake does too.  However, I'm not sure what's generating the hg Makefile 
-- it doesn't look like autoconf is involved.

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