>>> I doubt that nowadays, anybody still uses the native build system
>>> to install self-compiled software directly into the operating
>>> system,
>>
>> I do this all the time.
>
> O really? Surprising. Everybody else i talked to about such things
> during the last years said they don't do it because of the risk of
> polluting their system with ill-installed or left-over files.
Everything I install manually goes to `/usr/local' (with the exception
of Python and Perl packages, which insist to install into Perl and
Python `site' directories within `/usr'). I don't see a pollution at
all.
Werner
