[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thursday 23 August 2007 11:04:29 am Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> The only disadvantage that there is to using checkinstall is that the
> packages that result may or may not be named properly, may or may not be
> properly versioned, etc., and so if you enter bad data, it will never
> recognize that you have a package that something else relies on.
> Checkinstall also does not make it easy to specify things like
> dependencies, etc. when ready to build the package for the software
> you're installing, so it's useful for one-off testing, I think, but not
> much else.

ohhh.. I never thought about naming conventions, I always just take "the 
defaults".. as for the dependencies, that was already configured 
with ./configure and Make, ( I  hope) right??
>
> I am working on replacing the 'prevu' script family with something more
> versatile that should be usable on both Ubuntu and Debian systems that
> would make installing from source pretty much painless---while still
> following the guidelines that exist. ?Hopefully.

nice!!!

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Paul Cartwright
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