INSTALL.md: add note about uninstallation

At the moment, meson stores the list of installed files
in the build directory, and this list must be kept intact
for uninstallation to work. Add a note about it.
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Barnabás Pőcze 2022-06-15 17:20:33 +02:00 committed by Wim Taymans
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@ -230,3 +230,8 @@ ninja -C builddir uninstall
Depending on the configured installation prefix, the above command
may need to be run with elevated privileges (e.g. with `sudo`).
Note that at the time of writing uninstallation only works with the
same build directory that was used for installation. Meson stores the
list of installed files in the build directory, and this list is
necessary for uninstallation to work.