On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 13:29 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > _ easier to remove
No, self compiled is as easy to remove as a package > _ easier to maintain No, simply build a package > _ tried by other (at least, by people who made them) Correct, they are tested by the community, the people who build the packages often don't test their packages > _ they can be signed If you build the packages yourself, than there is no need to sign it, but if you like, than sign your own packages > _ less dependencies (no need to install all *-dev packages of their > dependencies, and their own dependencies, same for makefile The dependencies for the build package or directly installed software are the same, just for compiling you need headers. It's a bad habit of Debian to separate software into app, libs and headers and often it does cause serious issues, just take a look at the jack devel mailing list archive. People don't care about bloated DEs, but they care about some bytes to have everything linked correctly, by one package, two policies that don't fit together. > generators: > someone has spoken about ./configure, but there is also cmake, qmake, > scons, and many other) such as ./waf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1359640034.2149.26.camel@precise
