Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 schrieb Gary Dale: > People who prepare the individual packages or distributions are > usually the only ones who need to compile code. However, some > brave/foolhardy souls must have the latest code from the developer's > source and compile their own. This is invariably a bad idea.
I do not agree to such a across-the-board black and white statement. It can be a bad idea, but it can be a good idea as well. Actually from what I got quite some packagers and developers started that way and without them you wouldn´t be able to enjoy the packages you install cause they wouldn´t exist. I compiled my first application and Linux kernel long before I created my first Debian package that got uploaded to the repository. I do agree that compiling applications to standard FHS application asks for trouble, but compiling a game in a directory in your home directories hardly has any chance to break your system. I tend to compile only to in my and to my home directory, /usr/local, /opt. Except for kernels which I use kernel-package´s make-kpkg, cause I never got around fully understanding the other more official way via kernel source packages. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201207112052.18562.mar...@lichtvoll.de
