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Subject: Use of Root
From: gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:18:41 -0500
In-reply-to: <200502010814.09361.gerald.feldman@hp.com>
References: <20050131213534.KYKA8986.out006.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501311707020.25340@uni.thekramers.net> <41FEBD97.8010605@jonmasters.org> <200502010814.09361.gerald.feldman@hp.com>

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:14:09 -0500, Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman at hp.com> wrote:
> Does the business want its programmers to spend time installing and maintaining >software?

Bzzt! You don't need root privileges for that... configure
--prefix=/home/$USER works great. :--)

It's what I do at work, because they expect me to work with Vim
5.something and no LaTeX, which I couldn't handle.

Gordon
-- 
Gordon Marx
gcmarx at alumni.virginia.edu

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