On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:48:24 -0600
"Michael Hennebry" <henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> 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

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