On Saturday 21 June 2003 9:20 am, Chris Carlen wrote:
Hi:
I am considering switching distributions to Debian or something that is more obedient and less pseudo-intelligent than Suse. [...] The point of this is that, I wonder if you can assure me that Suse 8.2 is any better, or will I go through the same frustration of finding that Suse did something to break most of the useful software, so I will want to upgrade it to the vanilla stuff on the net, then find myself in a battle with dependencies and Yast trying to reinstall things all the time?
Something I've heard mention from time to time is a script called "checkinstall" or similar -- you would use this instead of the usual "make install" step of a "vanilla" installation, and it's purpose is to include it in the RPM database as an "installed" application -- this /may/ reduce the dependancy battle (I don't know for sure because I haven't installed a "vanilla" package yet...) Check the archives for similar items [or perhaps someone will chime in with details/corrections?] -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net