Karel Kulhavy wrote:
You can make Slackware system be compliant the same way as you do any otherIf the distribution in question uses RPM, installing libraries manually into system directories will screw it up. RPM will not know that the library is already installed, so it will try to overwrite it when the user installs some other package that requires it also. This causes a general mess. One way to avoid this problem is to install everything into some other directory, but then it will require setting up paths -- and the user still has to download several libraries, compile them, install them, and hope everything works. This is difficult, error-prone, and time-consuming.
system - download, compile, install.
In my opinion, the best way to simplify installation would be to provide static binaries and/or binary packages for a few popular distributions. For example, Mozilla provides mostly-static binaries, and the installation could not be simpler -- all the user has to do is extract the .tar.gz into some convenient directory and run the program. The only dependency they have is GTK+, and that is pre-installed on just about every distribution.
-- Igor
