[Pkg-mono-devel] Mono 2.01 and MonoDevelop 2.0 Alpha 1

[Jo Shields]

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 19:13 -0800, Brett Senior wrote:
> Sorry to keep harping on this.  Looked at meebey's repository and know
> why I had some packages and not all - some are for all architectures
> but the main ones are i386.  Given this and the fact that I need Mono
> 2.01 so that I can compile MonoDevelop 2.0 Alpha 1 - can I simply
> download and build the code with the 'install prefix' set to /usr
> rather than the default of /usr/local.  Didn't know whether I'd mess
> up my current Mono install by doing this and wanted to check.  Just
> one more thing - any idea when Mono 2.01 and MonoDevelop 2.0 Alpha 1
> will be ported and then migrate to testing ?  If it is not too far in
> the future then I'll wait for the packages.

Using --prefix=/usr? Yes, you're guaranteed to break your Mono install.