From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2008-05-15T10:25:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Can platform agnosticism be achieved?

ara.t.howard wrote:
> Albert Schlef wrote:
> > Everybody knows that when you install a unix program you do 'sudo
> > make  install' or 'su -c "make install"' *yourself*. It's *not* in the Makefile.
>
> no, you should *never* do this.  you should always do
> [...]
>   make
>   sudo make instal

(Yes, I didn't mean one should compile under root (except the exceptions 
you mentioned).)

>
> this is a key point, because programs like gems do all three.

Ah, I didn't consider this.

I'm a very newbie, certainly regarding gem, so, everybody, take my words 
with salt :-) (however you say that in English).
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