On Monday 15 January 2007 15:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* J Sloan
[01-15-07 17:31]:
At the very least, when installing a tar ball, checkinstall should be employed, UNLESS YOU ARE VERY KNOWLEDGABLE ABOUT LINUX STRUCTURE.
Take it from someone that used to tar ball all the time and seriously kludge his system - Checkinstall has saved my arse many time ever since I've discovered it utility, and for the exact same reason that Patrick mentions. Nothing like trying to hunt down various versions libs and other kludged dependencies. This is especially true if you don't use the proper and "specific" compile flags - they can get pretty convoluted very quickly. Checkinstall makes it a lot easier to fix problems and keep the rpm database coherent. Cheers, Curtis. -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! I don't want a politician I can believe in. I simply want a politician I can believe! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org