On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:46:05 +0200 Jussi Laako <[email protected]> said:
> On 28.10.2013 1:19, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > see above. ppa's. it's not a single build point once you start using > > ppa's for libs the distro does not provide. of the software i use day > > to day.. MOST of it doesn't come from the distro vendor. at least most > > in terms of function and effect to me. it's self-compiled over in > > /usr/local > > For long time I was having lot of stuff in /usr/local, but I gave up and > started to actually package all the self-built things properly, because > keeping the /usr/local nice and tidy from old obsolete shared library > versions and such was too much effort. > > Packaged things also make things easier to replace distro-vendor > packages with my own versions because dependencies don't break. > > It is also nice because if for example some friend wants to have a > latest version of Octave for openSUSE, I can just give them package > repository URL and they can add it and keep their things up-to-date. i've never really had a problem managing it by hand... considering it's pretty much all the software i actually work on and thus.. i kind of have a good idea of what is there. :) -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev
