Re: ./configure command

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 00:14 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 23:30, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

Yes, it's your freedom to give your 3 year old child a loaded gun and
let it play with it. A "configure && make install" run as root is of a
comparable quality.

The part that you don't explain here is how the same person who
would have some mysterious problem with installing a non-packaged
program locally as the author designed will magically be able to
encapsulate the solution to that problem by writing a spec
file.

All I do is to tell you: If you want to avoid trouble, you're better off
packaging packages as rpms on rpm based systems.

I'll agree in general, but still don't see how a person who
would have trouble with a stock compile/install is going to
have that problem fixed. It just becomes a subset of the
problems in building the packaged version.
----
agreed but the projects that have some universality and activity to them
will generally find someone who can provide the spec file to be included
either as part of the tarball or can at least bundle an SRPM.

Then as a last resort, there's always checkinstall (but I've never used
it so don't go by me).

Craig

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