18. Februar 2006 17:16, Rafael Fernández López: > What I meant is that it could be selected as default option. My > idea is to make easier new users to install apps that don't have, and that > would like to, without having to read man configure.
New users usually do not install apps that their distro does not provide. Almost every distribution has a package system with a GUI. It is also better to install not provided applications into /usr/local/ because it is usually in the path environment variable, so applications can run without the whole path prefix (imagine new users with the following question: Where is my newly installed application?). I do understand you now, but I don't think it's a useful behaviour. You could simply add a alias e.g. configure (./configure --prefix=~) and it would do the thing you want. It would be also easier for a new user because he wouldn't be bothered by ./ Greets, Rafael Bugajewski
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