Hi, >>"Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephane> On Saturday 17 October 1998, at 21 h 56, the keyboard of Rob Browning >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unless you're logged in as root, you're not going to be able to build >> these example files inside /usr/doc (nor should you) anyway, so you'll >> have to copy them somewhere else. You can run gunzip on them then and >> there's no problem. Stephane> It means that the sysadmin has to create /usr/local/doc, Stephane> and, foreach package, create a subdirectory in it and Stephane> uncompress the files in that subdirectory? Then, after Stephane> each upgrade he has to do the same? After each removal, she Stephane> has to remember to delete the subdirectory? Staw man. You mean you really build all the examples in all packages? really? Set up a cron job to clean all /usr/local dirs after no mods in a month., Set up a cron job to cp -a dirs after changes in /usr/doc. In reality, one really only compiles examples in a handful of packages, and one can do that anywhere. Stephane> To me, this completely defeats the purpose of having Stephane> packages. I believe I'm reading the messages of Slackware Stephane> fans explaining that building/installing everything by hand Stephane> is not a such fuss. You are entitled to your opinion. I am entitled to my opinion of your opinion. manoj -- hacker, n.: Originally, any person with a knack for coercing stubborn inanimate things; hence, a person with a happy knack, later contracted by the mythical philosopher Frisbee Frobenius to the common usage, 'hack'. In olden times, upon completion of some particularly atrocious body of coding that happened to work well, culpable programmers would gather in a small circle around a first edition of Knuth's Best Volume I by candlelight, and proceed to get very drunk while sporadically rending the following ditty: Hacker's Fight Song He's a Hack! He's a Hack! He's a guy with the happy knack! Never bungles, never shirks, Always gets his stuff to work! All take a drink (important!) Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E