Francesco Montorsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
a simple app with an icon on desktop where the user can drag drop
source packages and then let that little utility to decompress the
file, run configure script and compile it
The GNU source installer is your best bet:
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On 12/23/05, Paraplegic Racehorse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wouldn't it be fantastic if you'd be able to use your distribution's
package manager, or some similar system like AutoPackage etc?
Installing lots of things from source is not always healthy for a system
(can and will confuse
Hi
thanks for comments; I reply once to all comments posted ;)
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 12:08 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I don't think it is worth it since you'd end up having to recreate a
packaging system -- complete with diffs, custom configuration args,
installation work-arounds, et
Hi all,
as gnome user but more generally as linux user I continuosly have to
download source packages (I have learnt not to trust binary packages) and do
these repetitive things:
1) open a terminal
2) go to the folder where my browser puts downloaded files
3) tar -xvzf
Hi,
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 12:08 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I don't think it is worth it since you'd end up having to recreate a
packaging system -- complete with diffs, custom configuration args,
installation work-arounds, et cetera as it used more wide-spread.
I second that.
As a
