> I despise `sudo make install` because it can drop stuff anywhere, making it difficult to perform the inverse operation. It can, but I can't recall seeing it

> I despise `sudo make install` because it can drop stuff anywhere, making it difficult to perform the inverse operation. It can, but I can't recall seeing it install anything outside of $PREFIX in my usage. At least not in recent memory. Of course it depends on how the Makefile was written, but most things I deal with use GNU autotools which makes it easy to specify where things go in general. Also a number of Makefiles come with an uninstall target which can be handy.