Installing a "personal" copy of balsa was: Mime type icons

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Hello Andreas,

On 2017.04.26 08:54, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> On 04/26/2017 03:00:01 AM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:

> > it should now be possible to get a fully functional Balsa  
> > installation without needing root privileges.

> please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't a "fully functional  
> Balsa" also contain the documentation/help files? Wouldn't you still  
> need root privileges to install these files?

Using this approach would put the ENTIRE installation under whatever  
directory you specify as "prefix" including executables, libraries,  
include files, icons, help files, ....  It would create bin, lib,  
include, share, and other folders under the specified location.  It  
would not mix some in system folders and some local.  (If you actually  
have a reason to do that, it is possible using other options to  
./configure.)

I can think of two situations in which this might be useful.  First, as  
Peter suggested, is if you are on a machine where you do not have root  
privs, but would still like to use balsa.  It would be an private  
copy.  The other would be so you can keep a stable copy installed in  
/usr or /usr/local, and then install a testing copy (from git hear or  
with different compile options) in a local directory.  In this case,  
you just need to take care not to mix using some files from the system  
copy and some files from the local copy.

Jack