On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:33:12 -0500 Shawn <sfertch at real-time.com> wrote:
> Just do it....  I, and many others were in your shoes before.  The
> first time was nerve wracking, after that, it's not hard at all.

I don't find the idea nerve-wracking in any way.  I don't doubt the
process is extremely straight forward.  I just know that I have about
200 megs free at the moment, and that ain't enough to compile anything
that big.  Not to mention how slow it would be with only 192M RAM... 
The point is that, compiling things is only advantageous to a very small
segment of the market, and so shouldn't really be recommended to those
who don't need it.

> With the -net install option, it's only the executables (binaries)
> that reside outside your home directory.  All your documents will
> reside by default in your home directory.

Documents?  Who cares about documents?  The executables, shared
libraries, language files, templates, etc. etc. are all stored outside
your home directory, leaving a potential mess to clean up.  I'm
certainly not opposed to compiling, but you better believe I'm going to
compile a debian/etc. package first!

> You wouldn't want MS Office running from your "My Documents" directory
> now would you?

No, the point is that if the "make uninstall" isn't reliable, you end up
with as bad a DLL hell as on Windows, and that's not cool!  Most make
uninstall's seem to work, but don't seem to remove the directories they
create...

And frankly, I'd much rather have MS Office run from my "My Documents"
directory where it's nice and contained, not sprawled all out over the
entire system!

-- 
Ryan Hayle <hackel at walkingfish.com>

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