checkinstall (was: ubuntu and mythtv)

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Fri May 20 09:54:41 UTC 2005


> "Perfect" is maybe not exactly the word to use in conjunction with 
> checkinstall packages. AFAIK, checkinstall builds its packages without 
> including any dependency information. So you can uninstall i.e. a 
> library although the package made by checkinstall depends on it. Your 
> program won't work any longer and you will have to figure out the reason 
> by yourself.
> However I by myself also use checkinstall to install and particularly to 
> smoothly uninstall self compiled software but you should keep in mind 
> the insuccifiency of this kind of packages.
> Carsten

Ah, this is disappointing :-(  Well, now I know about this problem, I
will try to keep it mind...


--
Vince





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