On Aug 30, 2009, at 10:23, Deb Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:47:11 -0700, Patrick Crowley wrote: >> How do folks feel about installing gems in your home directory? >> >> Do you prefer that? Or the standard location instead? > > Don't like. I always try to structure my development system to allow > for installing multiple versions of languages, tools, libraries etc, > and as Matt already pointed out installing gems in your home dir > probably doesn't work in that kind of scenario. > > If you're only ever going to work with one version at a time then it > probably doesn't matter, though personally I don't like ever > installing > s/w components in my home dir. > > Maybe just obsessive organizing compulsion, but I partition my hard > disk s.t. software gets installed on the system drive, but nearly all > my working data is stored on separate volumes. Partly habit from bad > old days of having to wipe and completely reinstall trashed windows > systems, but I like that I have clean backup copies of a bootable > system volume and all of my data volumes (along w/ incremental archive > backups of working data). When I upgraded from Tiger to Leapard I did > a clean re-install on my system drive (wanted a diff organization of > how I was installing stuff); didn't have to mess with restoring > working > data because the data volumes were separate and fine as-is. > > Anybody else use this kind of organization, or do most of you just use > single HD volume?
I've always liked that style of organization, but I find it takes a lot of partition size guesswork. I usually end up filling my harddrive so 5GB and the wrong partition is an unfortunate waste.. How do you get around this? A fresh install of snow leopard would probably be very nice and might fix some of the issues I've already been having but restoring everything would take a lot of time for me. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
