Hi, Since I have started a project that needs to be redistributed (it'll be GPL) I've started to deeply read Autoconf and Automake manuals. Well, I had read some of FHS too, to know what I should do and what I should not do with my file hierarchy. But, what came to my mind (maybe it's possible today) is that we could make a new "file system" subtree in every ~. For example, a user will be able to do a "./configure ; make" but if the system is well-administrated a user won't be able to run a "make install", since it can cause problems to the system. (I know we, Gentoo users, don't care about that). But what I wanted to say is that if we are not root (typical case) we could do a "./configure ; make ; make install" (in an app called 'whatever') and it could create for example "/home/me/bin/whatever" and "/home/me/share/doc/whatever" or "/home/me/doc/whatever", and so on. That would be great since a normal user won't infect any root filesystem, and an administrator can fix any tricky problem deleting "/home/me". Bye and thanks !, Rafael Fernández López.