Use of Root

[Gordon Marx]

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
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