[sclug] Keeping track of source installations

[Jon Masters]

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Simon Heywood wrote:
| On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:04:40PM +0200,
erik.chakravarty at accenture.com wrote:
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|>For you DEBIAN_FANS out there... (I hope somebody gets that joke)
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| Sorry, lost on me. ;-)
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eric>> "make install" throws binaries and libraries
eric>> all over your filesystem with no way of
eric>> cleaning everything up again in 6
eric>> months time.

| Well, according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which Debian
| sticks to pretty well, this is what /usr/local is for - things added by
| the local administrator. In fact, most source tarballs have build
| scripts that install stuff in /usr/local by default.

Also uninstall scripts too.

IMHO it is not necessary to build packages for things which cleanly live
in /usr/local and which can be uninstalled using a script. I personally
prefer the concept of using GNU stow than pointlessly creating Debian
packages for the sake of creating yet more Debian packages :-).

Debian is just a Linux distribution. It often kicks arse but this does
not mean that everything must be done the way that they want it done.

Jon.
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