> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 20:59, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> hmm well won't work in this case, looks like I'll have to
> provide an install script and pack the lot up as a tarball.
> Hardly worth making an rpm really.

This is no more effort than making a tarball. Just put the setup script
as another source in your package. Its nto hard. And its better than the
tarball system in that:

Standard installation
Uninstallation
File querying
Verification
Automated installs
Generally better FHS compliance

yes, I think not allowing users to create broken packages is a feature.

Mike
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