From: Zac Slade <krakrjak@volumehost.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:08:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602181008.42559.krakrjak@volumehost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602181716.18524.info@maestroprogramador.com>
On Saturday 18 February 2006 10:16, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > This is what --prefix is for.
> > ./configure --prefix=~/
> > make && make install
> > This puts it into /home/user/ where /home/user is considered to be /
> What I meant is that it could be selected as default option. My idea is to
> make easier new users to install apps that don't have, and that would like
> to, without having to read man configure.
This is the pneumonic load of *nix. Installing software is non-trivial. We
make it much easier in gentoo with emerge, just as autoconf/automake made it
much simpiler in the past. If a user is going to compile and install
software in their home directory they are going to have to at least learn
--prefix as an option to configure. Fortunately/unfortunately this is a
requirement. Just as learning to use ls to list files in a directory.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-18 15:52 [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree? Rafael Fernández López
2006-02-18 15:44 ` Zac Slade
2006-02-18 16:16 ` Rafael Fernández López
2006-02-18 16:08 ` Zac Slade [this message]
2006-02-18 16:22 ` Rafael Bugajewski
2006-02-18 15:50 ` Devon Miller
2006-02-18 15:50 ` Rafael Bugajewski
2006-02-18 16:20 ` Rafael Fernández López
2006-02-18 16:11 ` Zac Slade
2006-02-21 4:16 ` David Mallwitz
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