>>> 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