[Alexandria-list] DevEnv setup

[Ophidian]

I was setting things up the other night to try and get a little more 
serious about learning Ruby and doing some Alexandria development, when 
I ran into a problem.

My primary desktop runs Fedora; this is where I have my library and 
stable install of Alexandria.  It appears that the .rpm file installs 
files to the exact same location as the Rakefile will.  How do others 
avoid clobbering their stable install while testing?  I'm perfectly 
willing to backup/clobber my ~/.alexandria directory while developing & 
testing, but the entire dev install seems a little messy to cleanup.  Oh 
how I long for the days of yore when a tarball in /usr/local was all 
that was needed to install a program outside the package manager.

Aaron
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"The goblins are in charge of maintenance?  Why not just set it on fire 
now and call it a day?"
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