Use of Root

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 08:18, Gordon Marx wrote:
> 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.
Agreed. Sometimes I think IT people expect programmers to work using ed.

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