> Has anyone considered also offerin a source-based solution, > like the popular Ports system in BSD distributions, or in > Gentoo GNU/Linux's emerge program? > > Is there anything wrong with `./configure && make install'?
No automatic dependency management? Also, not all software is built like this. Sure, but not all software is packaged either. Anything that is useful should be packaged. But I really fail to see the point of `source based installers'. What purpose does it serve? Who will use it? If one just needs a automatic way to compile a couple hundred packages, then GSC does that job, and is easily tweakable. But for all other purposes, I really cannot see what is so bad with `./configure && make install'. If you are a developer, you will want alot of control over what happens, and a `source based installer' will not help you there. Cheers. _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
