> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Stewart Stremler > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:53 AM > To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG > Subject: Re: Sed > > begin quoting Jon Wahlmann as of Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at > 10:53:03AM -0800: > [snip] > > I guess I should have clarified... > > What, and miss out on all the discussion that results from > creative misunderstandings? Do you want me to have no fun at all?!
I guess by not clarifying, I was taking up Lan's *flame-bait* banner. :-) > I tend to do this on my home machines. I compile and install > a lot of stuff to /tmp or $HOME/local to check it out... > which is why the tendency for a lot of software to splatter > stuff all over the system is so annoying. > > (And why "package installers" that don't let you specify > target locations are just evil. Yes, Apple, I'm looking at > the GNU tools that are built with the XCode > package-installer-builder.) AGREED 100%! > Yup. If $POLICY says "anything non-standard you compile and > install in your home directory, and _you_ maintain it", then, > well, that's policy. No worries. Of course, if $POLICY doesn't say anything explicitly about home directories and by virtue of providing shell access and a development environment, then one could still potentially get by with installing in $HOME. Then again, this is one of those gray areas where I'd probably want to get permission first. -Jon -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
