Terence McCarthy
Philipp Thomas
wrote: Even I need at least between half an hour and an hour to get a spec file right.
Even you, Philipp? My God, what hope for the rest of us?
Depends on what you want to achieve, i.e. how thorough you want your job to be. For simply turning a tar.gz into an rpm, i.e. accepting all defaults/paths the package uses, I guess 10-15 minutes suffice.
Somehow people always think that complex tasks should be made easy
Why not? That's the way progress is made.
There's nothing wrong with wanting them to be easy. What I really meant was that there's a limit as to how easy it should be made. And checkinstall IMO makes it far too easy, thus sacrificing too much.
No, we don't "have" to learn, we may choose to do so, and, yes, it may pay off.
It's like using Frontpage to build your home page via point&click, not caring that the output is rather horrible and far from being clean html.
But don't bet on it being the case that the results outweigh the effort.
Oh, but I do :) Any effort that gets rid of checkinstall is IMO worth it. Philipp