deinstall operation is shutting down listener running in another $ORACLE_HOME

I have found no working solution for the deinstallation processing shutting down the running listener in another $ORACLE_HOME.  This is because the deinstall process issues the lsnrctl stop command.  That command will stop any listener named LISTENER running from any $ORACLE_HOME.  The $ORACLE_HOME being removed does not have a running listener.  A simple check of the would determine that there is no need to "deconfigure" the listener since there is not one running.  The other alternative is to allow settting the LISTENER value to none.  Just because there is a listener.ora file in the current home which has the same