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I tried it and I'd rather # make install to install a program and # make -n install | xargs rm -rf to uninstall a program.

• lproven 3y ago
  This comment is the second time you've said this, so clearly, you think it's important. You also said it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39533554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39533554 I honestly don't see the connection. The idea of Gobo was to replace the cryptic Unix filesystem hierarchy with something clearer and more human-readable, and in so doing, replace a whole bunch of things that package managers do, making them almost unnecessary. Your point doesn't address this at all. You're talking about building from source instead of using a package manager, as far as I can see? But compiling from source still puts the resultant binaries somewhere in the existing Unix filesystem layout. It doesn't matter where the binaries come from. This isn't about where they come from -- it's about where they go.