On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: >> It is just RIDICULOUS not to have an automated way to create RPMs. > > Feel free to write such a tool. Those that exist have various fatal > flaws. I'd certainly never use checkinstall on my system nor would I > want anyone producing rpms with it for inclusion in Fedora. :) > > Again, feel free to write it. No one else has done a good job of this > yet. Could you please tell what is wrong with checkinstall other than "it sucks" ?? I'm sure the author of checkinstall would be more than happy to receive bug reports. Instead, the attitude I saw here was that checkinstall sucks, and that everybody should build RPMs the traditional (complex) way. Best, FC -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
