[bongobingo1]

> For this guide, we recommend installing Radicle under /usr/local. This will require you to have write permissions to /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/man. You can give yourself these permission by changing ownership of these directories to the current user and group:

    $ sudo chown $(whoami): /usr/local/{bin,man,man/man1}

Seems kinda weird to chown all that in the install instructions? Or am I the weird one. Edit: This is from the seed guide, the user guide suggests installing to ~/.radicle.

Also booo for using ~/.radicle instead of ~/.config|local|whatever.

Some quirks and bumps, but the software is good at first impression. I really hope something like this can take off. Needs a good (and somehow trustable/authoritative) searchable index though as that's 90% of what most users want from Github I think.

I do wonder if the protocol could be adopted into something like Forgejo to aid adoption of the P2P idea.

[vrighter]

this is just horribly wrong

[jazzyjackson]

FYI the guide they're quoting is not for the usual installation but for hosting a seed box. Presumably the kind of thing you would spin up on a VPS and not use for anything else.

[smartmic]

Yeah, I wonder how much of the long-standing Unix philosophy & consistency is lost by breaking with best practices. autotools seems to be written off by many younger (and non- C) developers and maintainers, but still, it would be good to stick to consistent conventions on that platform.

[taikahessu]

How would you do it?

[CodeCompost]

Ah, a Mac user I see.

[stephenr]

Who are you suggesting is a Mac user? The parent commenter or the author of the install "instruction" they quoted?