Re: [SLE] Re: How do I build RPMs for SuSE?

John Pettigrew [Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:40:26 +0100]:

In a previous message, Philipp Thomas wrote:

I know that you're half joking with this,

No, I'm dead serious with that.

but all this ranting against checkinstall is stupid IMO.

OK, let's agree to disagree :)

This program has a specific and very useful purpose - to enable the quick and dirty insertion of a compiled program into the rpm database.

Yes, but users should be aware of the drawbacks and that seldom seems to be the case.

For an individual user, there are no real disadvantages to its use for building software,

Compared to just compiling the tarball? Then it indeed has no disadvantages.

If you are (for example) only compiling the app to see whether you like it, do you really want to spend half an hour (or more) of actual human effort?

I guess I would, but I'm that sort of guy that compiles with full compiler warnings switched on and fixes those warnings wherever possible :) So you should ask somebody else :) cheers Philipp