On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Greg Evans wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Was just wondering if it would be possible (see feasable) to amke a 
> utility like say an..for lack of a better word..."uninstaller" heh.
> 
> What I mean is that until I get more room on my NetBSD HD, I would like 
> to be able to use the installer to say maybe use a command to tgz the 
> entire install out to my Mac HD.  I dunno, I don't know how to explain 
> what I am meaning....I guess the best explanation would be something 
> similar to cpin and cpout, maybe caller tgz_in and tgz_out or something 
> so I could basically do the install in reverse...I am tired forgive my 
> rambling..

	I think what he is asking is, is there or could there be a way to
uninstall the system tarballs (base.tgz, comp.tgz etc.) That is, without
having to go through and delete every file one at a time ;-) And, I think
this could be a handy thing... but of course it would need to know what
files are installed and where. I know that I accidentally installed X on a
machine that I was going to run headless, and had to go in and delete the
/usr/X11R6 files, but I didn't know if there were any OTHER files outside
of that hierarchy, and didn't want to take the time to list every single
file in the x tarballs...

	Feasibility?

	Ryan

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