On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:42, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings everybody;
> 
> I just found a bit of a space waster in the way amanda installs its 
> libraries...I had a set of identical 
> libraries in /usr/local/lib that amounted to around 50 megabytes 
> worth.

Well, I have two ways around such:

1.  When I build amanda, since no one else needs her libraries, I use
configure with --prefix=/opt/amanda-${version} so that they all go into
/opt.  Then I update a symlink /opt/amanda -> /opt/amanda-${version} and
test.  Only when I'm happy do I 'rm -rf' the previous version.

2.  For other software I use checkinstall to build an RPM on the fly,
which I can then easily erase/update.  Search at Google for
"checkinstall home page".

-- 
Stephen Walton <stephen.walton AT csun DOT edu>
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, CSU Northridge