Re: [PLUG] "Friends don't let friends use Dell"

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Fred K. Ollinger:
> Package managers are the best, but if they get in your way like rpm does
> for me, it's better to forego it altogether.

Although package managers can get in your way, they do allow most folks 
to install a package that will likely work if all the necessary 
dependencies are present, and it works.  Of course at times I'm paranoid 
and run checkinstall, which gives me the best all worlds, namely a 
package in my desired form, which can be uninstalled or updated if 
necessary, but one that can be configured for my system because it's 
compiled on my system.

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/   for anyone interested. 
Makes tgz, rpm and deb packages although I've only tried the tgz and rpm 
features.


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