Re: Debian installation of gnome?

[robert havoc pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Mark Galassi wrote:
> 
> My tip here is to not use /usr/local, or anything where you have other 
> programs installed.  That's because in these experimental stages, it
> sometimes helps to completely wipe out your gnome install tree, and it 
> also helps to squirrel away a copy when it's stable.
> 

Good point. What I actually do is use /usr/local/pkgs/gnome and then use
GNU stow to symlink into /usr/local. That works pretty well. /opt/gnome is
just as good though.

Havoc