From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:49:49 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84k7ifo3s2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <84bs3xsyi8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <101220021125583826%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039693843 17705 80.91.224.249 (12 Dec 2002 11:50:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MRrR-0004b2-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:50:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MRrC-0004qF-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:50:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1efca.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1efca.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.239.202) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039693793 35546928 217.225.239.202 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fdLhaUdWGGU8ImXgkxXZSBTY2OM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348698 gnu.emacs.help:108027 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4558 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4558 Ajanta writes: > I didn't keep a tally but here is an example. I recently I obtained a > beta distribution (not emacs) which didn't work out (fair enough, > that's a known risk in beta) and I deleted it. Or so I thought. I run Linux instead of MacOS, but maybe this approach works there, too? At our site, we have a directory for software with subdirs for each program, and subsubdirs for each version. For example, ./configure --prefix=/usr/sw/emacs/21.2 is sufficient to configure Emacs in such a way that subsequent `make' and `make install' can be undone easily by just removing the directory /usr/sw/emacs/21.2. This works because Emacs is the only program in that directory. It's a very simple approach, but it works well enough for us. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)