Clyde Forrester wrote these words on 08/16/07 17:53 CST: > One point, it would appear, is that if my working directory is an > isolated subdirectory, and if it's something experimental which goes > bad, then I can simply step out of the isolated working directory and > nuke it from orbit.
Correct. And if the package is/was well-behaved, then the source tree would still be virgin. But unless the tarball is quite large (say like the kernel), then nuking the source tree and unpacking the tarball is not that big of a deal anyway either. Now if you are a developer, instead of just an end-user, you may not be in a position to just nuke the source tree. So building in a separate build dir is a good thing. What it comes down to is personal choice. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 18:00:01 up 6:13, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.16, 0.21 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
