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Re: [groff] I hate git-version-gen


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [groff] I hate git-version-gen
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 07:25:24 +0100 (CET)

>>> I doubt that nowadays, anybody still uses the native build system
>>> to install self-compiled software directly into the operating
>>> system,
>>
>> I do this all the time.
> 
> O really?  Surprising.  Everybody else i talked to about such things
> during the last years said they don't do it because of the risk of
> polluting their system with ill-installed or left-over files.

Everything I install manually goes to `/usr/local' (with the exception
of Python and Perl packages, which insist to install into Perl and
Python `site' directories within `/usr').  I don't see a pollution at
all.


    Werner



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