Removing Wine source directory

[colt]

After installing wine from the source, I find out that the directory is consuming some significant amount of space, so I decided to remove it. But then I remembered that since I installed from source, I mighty need the source directory in the future, in case I decide to uninstall wine. After checking the documentation, I saw that was true.
So I wonder: Can I remove the directory and in the future, when I would need to uninstall it
, can I download the package again and after unpacking it, simply enter the directory and
"make uninstall" it ? And how can I find how much space the wine's files spread through my system are using?

Thanks for any assistance .

[L. Rahyen]

can I download the package again and after unpacking it, simply enter the
directory and "make uninstall" it ? And how can I find how much space the
wine's files spread through my system are using?

If you want to have a guarantee of simple and clean uninstall and
especially if you want to know "how much space the wine's files spread through
my system are using" you should never use "sudo make install" and use
"sudo checkinstall" instead: it creates a standard package for your
distribution (deb, rpm and tgz packages are supported) that you can install
through your distribution's package management system. If you do not have
checkinstall, in Debian-based distribution you can install it by running
"sudo apt-get install checkinstall".
So I recommend you to "make uninstall" Wine now and run checkinstall to
generate a package and install it through your distribution's package
management system (dpkg, rpm or installpkg).