Symlinking to gnome-common

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Is it perfectly safe to use the same copy of the intl, macros,
and support directories for all gnome packages, and just put
symbolic links to it from each project?  I realize that cvs puts
a discrete copy into each package.  But does the
configure/compile process do anything to those common directories
that shouldn't be shared by other packages?

Part of it is the disk space (although I have plenty for the
moment), and part of it is not wanting to haul around all that
extra weight each time I create a new application.

Thanks,
John