[PLUG] C programming

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Stuart Jansen wrote:

> It needed to be said, thank you for saying it. Unless you're a developer
> or a hobbyist looking to have fun, installing from source is probably not
> a wise decision. While it may not be hard to do, the long term maintenance
> cost is much higher and can probably only be justified for the most
> critical parts of one's infrastructure.

Stuart,

   Consider using checkinstall. It replaces 'make install' and offers the
options of creating a package in .rpm, .deb, or .tga format (Red Hat/Fedora,
Debian, and Slackware formats). Then upgrades or removals use the package
management tools.

Rich

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