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-rw-r--r--INSTALL14
-rw-r--r--Makefile9
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b5b1f066..3f4e0198 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -13,13 +13,11 @@ sudo make install
 Uninstalling
 ============
 
-Ranger uses python distutils to install ranger which does not support automatic
-uninstalling.
+Again, use your package manager to uninstall ranger.  No other way for
+automatically removing ranger is supported!
 
-However, after installing ranger with one of the ways above, all installed
-files are recorded to "uninstall_info".  This information can be used to
-remove ranger:
-cat uninstall_info | xargs -d "\n" sudo rm --
+However, if you installed ranger with the command above, all installed files
+have been recorded to "uninstall_info".  This information can be used to remove
+ranger by hand, e.g.:
 
-or simply:
-sudo make uninstall
+cat uninstall_info | xargs -d "\n" sudo rm --
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2f2417de..88abe024 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ SNAPSHOT_NAME ?= $(NAME)-$(VERSION)-$(shell git rev-parse HEAD | cut -b 1-8).tar
 # Find suitable python version (need python >= 2.6 or 3.1):
 PYTHON ?= $(shell python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version < "2.6")' && \
 	which python || which python3.1 || which python3 || which python2.6)
+SETUPOPTS ?= '--record=uninstall_info'
 DOCDIR ?= doc/pydoc
 DESTDIR ?= /
 PYOPTIMIZE ?= 1
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ options: help
 	@echo 'DOCDIR = $(DOCDIR)'
 
 help:
+	@echo 'make install: Install $(NAME)'
 	@echo 'make doc: Create the pydoc documentation'
 	@echo 'make clean: Remove the compiled files (*.pyc, *.pyo)'
 	@echo 'make cleandoc: Remove the pydoc documentation'
@@ -44,12 +46,9 @@ help:
 	@echo 'make test: Run all unittests.'
 
 install:
-	$(PYTHON) setup.py install --record=uninstall_info \
+	$(PYTHON) setup.py install $(SETUPOPTS) \
 		'--root=$(DESTDIR)' --optimize=$(PYOPTIMIZE)
 
-uninstall:
-	cd $(DESTDIR) && cat $(CWD)/uninstall_info | xargs -d "\n" rm --
-
 compile: clean
 	PYTHONOPTIMIZE=$(PYOPTIMIZE) $(PYTHON) -m compileall -q ranger
 
@@ -76,4 +75,4 @@ bm:
 snapshot:
 	git archive --prefix='$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/' --format=tar HEAD | gzip > $(SNAPSHOT_NAME)
 
-.PHONY: default options compile clean doc cleandoc test bm snapshot install uninstall
+.PHONY: default options compile clean doc cleandoc test bm snapshot install