Re: [opensuse] building RPMs - was: uninstall source

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The Sunday 2007-04-29 at 21:53 +0200, lists Guillot wrote:

I'm going to follow your advice. Johannes intimated above that
checkinstall has a bad reputation,

Absolutely not!

and you also don't seem to think
too highly of it with your "(at least)". So what would be a good tool
for this? I see that I have rpmbuild on my system so I'm tempted to
use that, though the man page is not exactly a detailed instructions
manual.

You can use checkinstall with an absolutely clear conscience, there is
nothing wrong with it. It is just that, if you intend to later distribute
rpms outside, you'd better do them manually with full control of them. If
you just want to install packages you compiled yourself, it is perfect.

The only people talking bad about checkinstall are those people that
invested the necessary time and effort to make rpms manually - ie,
developers and packagers - and for the simple reason that checkinstall is
automatic, instead of manual, fine grained, full control.

Or would you stop using konqueror because the command line offers more
control? Or stop using OpenOffice and write your documents in latex with
vi? Fine tools, of course, but not for mere mortals :-P

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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