The more fool them then, particularly given the lengthy and patient explanations from SuSE staff as to why it's not a good plan.
and non-SuSE staff (well, ex-SuSE staff in my case) My point being, it's not a point that's being made for nefarious purposes to extort money from users, these are valid technical arguments that myself, Philipp and the others have given for doing it properly, rather than with checkinstall. If someone is capable, and confident to build applications from source, then it's really not a huge step to learn to craft a spec file too. Hell, if it's an update to a package that's already in SuSE, base it on the spec in the SuSE src.rpm, if not, pick another package that seems similar (by whatever means of comparison you like - ie, are they both library packages, or are they both GNOME packages, etc, etc...), and base it on that. If checkinstall was a good way to build RPMs, the distro you buy would be built with it. It isn't. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org