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by spc476 632 days ago
Please talk to security. My machine is locked down so tight I need a director (or higher) override to get anything not in the default distribution or "blessed" by security installed, and I can't even be the one to install it. May you never have to work at The Enterprise. It sucks!
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At that point wouldn't you "just" download the source and compile locally? Since you presumably could compile stuff. Add a 'bin' folder in your home directory to your PATH and enjoy.
That sucks for sure, I did work a giant enterprise for a few years and it was plenty painful but not that bad at least. Well maybe it was that bad, because we didn't use make either, everything had to go through Jenkins and nobody bothered with anything for local development beyond an occasional `build.sh` somewhere in the project. Simply push your code when you think it's done and wait 30 minutes to get the next set of linter errors.
So how do you build any project, which have countless dependencies that all have to be installed?