Am 29.12.2011 00:01, schrieb John R Pierce:
On 12/28/11 2:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
do what you believe and let us look where you end in 5-6 years after doing a couple of updates with "./configure&& make&& make install)
it IS DIRTY because it does NOT remove obsoleted files and yes i have seen environemnets where as example mysql did not compile any longer as long all pieces of the old version were not deleted manually
who says he's building system packages? I got the impression he's building his own applications, stuff that typically runs in $HOME rather than /usr or whatever.
on a clean environment $HOME does not contain software this is the apple-way having binaries running where your user have write-access and from the viewpoints of security and modern system-managment worst practice