Ikke <eikke <at> eikke.com> writes: > > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 19:18 +0100, Francesco Montorsi wrote: > > Hi all, > > ... > Wouldn't it be fantastic if you'd be able to use your distribution's > package manager, or some similar system like AutoPackage etc? > > Installing lots of things from source is not always healthy for a system > (can and will confuse your package manager), so I don't think it's a > good idea to "make it easy" for end-users to do this. Try CheckInstall + kConfigure. It's not a GNOME combination, one being a CLI-only tool and the other being a KDE tool, but it works really well. CheckInstall - http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ kConfigure - http://kconfigure.sourceforge.net/ __ Faster than a speeding slug! I'm Paraplegic Racehorse. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
