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[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2017/09/04 at 15:05 -0500]

>The one question I have is: Should I just instruct to unpack in the home 
>directory or should I advise that a directory should be made within the home 
>directory for compiling and managing svn, git and other source downloads? I 
>actually think I may change my own practice now that I realize what my 
>assumptions were.

It all depends on how organized a person wishes to be. My personal 
recommendation would be to create a directory named Projects/ (not src/), and 
then, in it, to have one directory per project that I'm working on. There's no 
need to separate svn projects from git projects.

Also, I always recommend unpacking an archive into a directory that's known to 
be empty. The reason is that you never know what you'll be getting. Some 
archives, for example, don't have a unique root subdirectory. It's far safer to 
unpack an archive with a root subdirectory into an empty directory, and then 
move the root and remove the empty directory as needed, than it is to unpack an 
archive without a root subdirectory into a directory that already contains 
other things.

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