On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:32 -0600 Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com> wrote: > Comments inline: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com> wrote: > > Carlos: > > > >> I tend to try out many open source apps/packages > > > > I make a separate directory for each application in /usr/local > > so they are isolated from each other. > > > > You mean /usr/local or /usr/local/src ? > I would create new directory under /usr/local/src and put source > there. Please correct me if I am wrong. > > This brings one more confusion: > - whether to use /usr space or /opt . > > Any comments? > I allways made a rpm from it and install by yum. I'ts not hard. Clean install and uninstall. BR, Bob