Package/Build-From-Source Management

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 22:12, David Abrahams wrote:
> > In general having things installed in /usr/local should not
> > affect the package manager "per se", but you can't expect apt,
> > dpkg and friends to know what's there unless you tell it ( hence
> > for example checkinstall ).
> >
> > There's a menu editor include under Accessories for your custom
> > commands or to add entries for packages that are not yet fully
> > compliant with the freedesktop specs.
>
> I don't understand how editing a menu can possibly keep my packages
> in order.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding the meaning of "menu" here?

It has nothing to do with your packages. What he is saying is that if 
you install stuff yourself and put it in /usr/local (the recommended 
place for such things) then it doesn't interfere with the rest of the 
system.

Additionally, such packages probably don't install the relevant items 
on the panel menus as they don't have installation instructions that 
conform to the freedesktop specs, so there is a gui command where you 
can do this manually.

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Alan McKinnon
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