Gary L. Hennigan writes: >What's the name of the software that helps you keep track of what's >getting installed in /usr/local when you install a non-Debianized >piece of software yourself? Something akin to the Win98 uninstall >utility. I believe you simply run it after doing a "make install", or >similar, and it scans the specified directories for any files that may >have been installed. It keeps a database of these so that you can >easily uninstall whatever it is.
I use 'stow'. It doesn't work quite like you describe, but it's very good. Check it out. -- -~* Daniel Elenius *~-