RE: GNOME vs GNU gcc & glibc

["Richard Hult" <rhult hem2 passagen se>]

>   An additional point is the following. Why should one mess up the
>  system by installing the above 53+ tar-balls in /usr ? Yes, I made my
>  attempt to install GNOME in /sw/gnome, and I reported the problems I
>  encountered. The X11 comes clean into his very own /usr/X11R6, so why
>  not having something like /usr/GNOME ?  The additional advantage for
>  doing this is that, like Xfree98, one can download the official (and
>  tested) binary, and use it withouth bothering too much about which
>  compiler, which libs etc.

I have installed gnome in /opt/gnome since day one and it works perfectly.
The only thing I did was running configure with --prefix=/opt/gnome.

Richard