so basically what you are saying is, don't do sudo make install anymore.
But even when I specify a prefix, the problem will remain, since the uninstall in that area will also not clean up stuff correctly. It is however does manually delete things then.
Aside from that, I really do think, that a makefile should always clean up whatever it generated, even leaving empty directories is not nice.
Well I might go to a prefixe-ed cb install, but still based upon make install, because I am the only user on the system, it will be no problem that the other accounts will be unable to run it ;-)
I have no idea, how to end up with packages locally, could you give me some information on this ? (Opensuse)