./configure command

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 23:30, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> Yes, it's your freedom to give your 3 year old child a loaded gun and
> let it play with it. A "configure && make install" run as root is of a
> comparable quality.

The part that you don't explain here is how the same person who
would have some mysterious problem with installing a non-packaged
program locally as the author designed will magically be able to
encapsulate the solution to that problem by writing a spec
file.

> All I do is to tell you: If you want to avoid trouble, you're better off
> packaging packages as rpms on rpm based systems.

I'll agree in general, but still don't see how a person who
would have trouble with a stock compile/install is going to
have that problem fixed. It just becomes a subset of the
problems in building the packaged version.

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  Les Mikesell
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