How to create a package uninstaller

[Michael O'Brien]

On Oct 19, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> But this would be an opportunity to improve our package creation code: since MacPorts already knows what files it's putting into a package, it could easily write a script that removes them, and install that script as well. We'd just need to decide where the script should be installed.

On this, we're in complete agreement.  Whatever the outcome, relocating MacPorts to build metapackages or not, this change, to allow the simultaneous creation of an uninstaller, would make package and metapackage creation and management a lot easier, at least for us.

Mike O'Brien