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Re: [PLUG] Update on My Debian Progress
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 08:29:37AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote:
> IMHO tarball and debian do not fit well together. Each time you use a
> tarball instead of a debian package, you decrease the power of debian
> and its managment of dependencies (i.e. you broke dependencies).
I sometimes resort to tarballs, but handle it by configuring with
--prefix=/usr/local (often the default), and then PATH and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH get /usr/local after /usr/bin and other debian
controlled places. Or I even configure to $HOME/local for things that
are just one user (and the user can decide whether to put $HOME/local
first or last).
In other words, tarballs don't necessarily obligate you to install to
/usr/bin, which is what can mess up dpkg's view of the world.
--
Jeff
Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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<http://www.misunderstanding.net/buystuff.html>
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