[Gllug] Installing Linux software (Part II)

[Paul Brazier]

> It just reinforces my opinion that packages should not be created by
> third parties. They just cause more problems than they solve. If all
> your packages come from a single vendor (e.g., Red Hat, Mandrake,
> Debian, etc.) then you're fine. Otherwise, you're just asking for
> trouble. The excpetion to this would be if they installed into their
> own directoy in /opt, and had no dependencies other than on packages
> supplied by the same vendor. See CorelDRAW 9 for an example of how
> not to do it...

Is there any mileage in creating your own personalised rpms?
Does anyone do this & is it tricky?
I was thinking if you need an application (or version) that isn't
available for your distro or even only from source and you don't want to
mess up your rpm database.


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