On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:48:24 -0600 "Michael Hennebry" <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: > > > I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about by the SW installation without real control. Although only for my system, I regularly build a SW package (RPM) for SW, which is not in distribution. Which is actually quite easy. So I always have a clean system and can be very easy to update or delete. However, this is less and less necessary as more SW is available. > > My guess is that it's only easy after you have done it a few times. > I have experience with being told things are easy. > One time a linux guru told me something was > easy and then proceeded to do it for me. > It took him several hours. > Yes, sometimes it can take several hours. But it still pays off compared to simple "make install" into /usr/local or even worse into /usr. BR -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
