On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:23:06 +0100 (CET), you wrote:
But it doesn't mean at that checkinstall is broken by design, not at all!
Could we agree to disagree? I think that we'll never come to terms on this one :)
No doubt that the packages you people prepare are better than those we can hope to make. Nevertheless, We may have our reasons to roll our own packages now and then, for special reasons.
Yes, and then a system like the OBS or at least using the build command and miles better then checkinstall.
Yes, I have known since years that you devs have no interest in checkinstall
If that would be true I wouldn't have created a package for SuSE Linux back then. Originally I thought it was a neat idea and would help people build packages. Please remember my interest in checkinstall is as a packager, not as a author. And most of my time is needed for products that earn the money that's used to support openSUSE.
, whereas we users do have, but can't do anything about it.
Not all users. There are some that have learnt (or are learning) to build packages and that use the obs to build packages for themselves and/or others.
If I have to learn how to create spec files to create rpms I will not use the buildservice for making my private rpms.
So be it. It's a service that's free for you to use or refuse. If something like the obs had existed when I started dealing with packages I would have been overjoyed, BUt people differ :)
I'd rather just run make install in the /usr/local tree (another can of worms, I know). I don't see the advantage, and I can't build multimedia packages there, it is forbidden, anyway.
No, doing 'make install' isn't any better, I'd have to agree.
And about the time... what do you prefer
Me? I'd always prefer tinkering with packages >;->
or that I spend that time translating, say, opensuse for use by others,
Guess what? I'm doing both :)
or helping the community in some other way that I can do well?
It doesn't count what I prefer, what counts is what *you* prefer. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org