Re: [wmii] removing 9base dependency, depending on plan9port as option, switching back to sh?

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:43:15 +0100, "Anselm R. Garbe" <garbeam_AT_wmii.de> said:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 03:28:05PM +0100, Steffen Liebergeld wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:47:42 +0100, "Anselm R. Garbe"
>> <garbeam_AT_wmii.de> said:
>> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:43:27PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
>> >> Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > Why not installing 9base to /tmp/9 in
>> your >> case?
>> >>
>> >> because every reasonably sophisticated distribution cleans /tmp
>> >> while the systems boot-procedures.
>>
>> > I know, but doing cd $HOME/9base && sudo make install after each
>> > reboot doesn't hurt much, if the system sucks. The only reason
>> which > might hurt would be if /tmp is mounted with noexec option.
>>
>> sudo is no option. At the moment the easiest thing is to use
>> ratpoison and wait for better hardware (local and remote).

> That is true, s/sudo//, and doing make 9PREFIX=/tmp/$USER/9 install
> might work though.

Sure. Thats an option, but it sucks ;-)

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