Ryan Hayle wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:33:12 -0500 Shawn <sfertch at real-time.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>>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.
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>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!
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>>You wouldn't want MS Office running from your "My Documents" directory
>>now would you?
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>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...
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>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!
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Dang I'm done installing it ran much like the windows installed software 
I've run, no big deal.


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