On Saturday 31 May 2008 10:00:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> It is also helpful to try and avoid building your own custom packages as > >> much as possible. In many cases alternatives exist, or waiting for an > >> upgrade has a longer cost. > > > > <SNIP> > > > >> Yes: checkinstall is a good tool for doing this, although the various > >> 'dh-make-*' packages provide good support for Perl and PHP modules. > > > > How can you on the one hand suggest avoiding creating your own custom > > packages on the one hand and then suggest that checkinstall is a good > > tool?? > > The answer is very simple: > > It is, in my opinion, a terrible mistake to build a custom package. [snip] Luckily Linux from scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ and gentoo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux ooh and me
don't agree with you. You do whatever YOU like and want, me, I've made dozens of packages for many reasons: repository version of ufraw is *old*, um I like building myth from scratch, etc. IMHO there is NO downside to making your own packages. Heck if you package decently you have the option of using repository versions when ever you choose. IMHO this is bad advice. Better to say you can do (a) (b) and (c) with those considerations and (d) or (e) with these. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
