Re: The Garnome Home Page

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 04:48, Paul Drain wrote:
> > 3) Assuming I'm happy with my current version of garnome, could I, 
> > should I, install it as root in /usr ?
> 
> Thomasvs came up with a good answer for this:
> 
> "Never ever ever install stuff from source to /usr unless you are
> completely sure that this is what you want and the only way to work
> around something. If you don't know if it is, the answer is it isn't."

Call this Ross' Expansion:

"And even if you think you know it is, it probably isn't. Don't."
 
Ross, whose build system would refuse to  install into /usr (if he ever
wrote a build system)
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