Re: [Plplot-cvs] CVS update notice (plplot)

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > mklinks (not relevant?).  Maurice, please stick this in if relevant.

mklinks was a good idea at the time but these days a better solution
is available.  Basically mklinks let you put plplot under
/usr/local/plplot-version and then make symlinks into /usr/local/bin, lib,
man, and so on.  And most importantly, later remove them.

These days it's more common to provide a package manifest and an uninstall
facility.  Of course that is part of rpm's appeal, but anyone can do it.
Now that we're using the install command (/usr/bin/install on my system)
to do the install (which has become quite noisy again BTW), we can wrap
that with a script that generates the manifest.  Given the manifest, an
uninstall utility is trivial.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)