Thank you for your clarification!
So far, I've had some time to start, but I'm having problems compiling ghostscript. I'll spend a little more time with it this weekend, as I think that it's highly likely that I'm missing something important.
Josiah
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Bernard Hurley wrote:
No, not at all.
Firstly I said what I had done not what you should do. I did not do this because I cannot run "make uninstall" but because I tend to be somewhat paranoid about these things and don't necessarily assume that either "make install" or "make uninstall" will actually do what I expect, and, in the case "make install" have been proved right for one of the recent CVS versions of lilypond. I am even more paranoid than this in that I have installed lilypond 2.5.x on a different machine to the one I use for my work and run it via my network.
Secondly I have spent a lot of time trying to persuade schools, businesses and individuals to use GNU/Linux. In many cases it is very important to these people that the software they use runs correctly and carries on running. Nevertheless, for a range of reasons they often wish to try out new, maybe unstable, versions of software. One of the very nice things about GNU/Linux is that it is possible to do this very safely. It is also possible to play with the software and perhaps completely wreck it without wrecking the system. I was not trying to give you advice, but for most of these people I would advise them to create a new user. I have been in the computing business for over a quarter of a century and have become used to taking elaborate precautions: experience shows that it ends up saving more time than it wastes.
/Bernard
D Josiah Boothby wrote:By suggesting that I create a new user, are you implying that I cannot "make uninstall" before installing the next version?
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