> Since you've got an executable in the tarball in my opinion it's not very
> important... i just hate to compile a package because if i later don't want
> it in my system it's harder to remove ;-)
This is exactly why I prefer tarballs. I open and compile them in a
directory in my local user space. I can generally execute it from there
as well.
This approach serves two purposes for me. First, I can quickly look at
something and then just delete the directory. Also, for small utility
programs I just move them to "mybin" which is on my path and when I
upgrade the OS they're not eliminated even if I do a clean install.
Cheers --- Larry
