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  1. Bug #693834
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 693834

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Diego Biurrun (diego-biurrun) wrote : Re: [Bug 693834] Re: maintain configuration files as separate files

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 01:59:28PM +0000, Stefan Götz wrote:
> I'm skeptical of this 'running from source' business. From my
> experience, many tools built with the GNU tool chain do require a 'make
> install' invocation for precisely the reasons discussed here.

+1

Please don't extrapolate from your own experience to common practice.
Just think of the /usr/local/etc issue. This is the standard path for
self-compiled software on Unix. You were only accustomed to something
due to years of broken defaults in HIPL.

Diego