Has Linux gone binary?

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> > Although make scripts do some pretty amazing things, automatically
> > customizing the compile for distribution variations like library
versions
> > and file locations, there's one thing you can't do:  Uninstall.  You
have to
> > hack back through the make script manually, discover every little change
it
> > made, and undo it by hand.  Miss something?  You could be facing a
crashed
> > system.

> Not true, if the software supports automake, like most GNU software, the
'make
> uninstall' command will undo whatever 'make install' does. That is if you
keep
> the source tree around after you compile.

Unfortunately, that option isn't often implemented by the developers.