On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:55, Mike McCarty wrote: > I also nearly always use --prefix, and install into my home > directory, not to /usr/local. I've got a /home/jmccarty/usr/... tree. > If anything goes bad, I just delete the directories altogether. > There is NO UNINSTALL NEEDED. This brings up another problem with packaging. Anything I'd be likely to compile myself these days is probably very experimental and I might like to have 2 or more versions to compare them or to have a known-good version if the latest one blows up. You can do that with many source bundles with the --prefix option and using explict paths to execute the programs. How do you do it with RPM packaged items? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
