FTBFS following instructions from the website

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Feb 5 15:34:21 PST 2015


On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:49:31PM +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> >
> > As a personal preference, I never run "make install" outside of a
> > chroot, because it's going to spread files all over the filesystem,
> > that aren't tracked by anything, so I view this intense forking
> > activity as a downside.
> 
> True.  There's still tweaks in there to make it work.  For personal
> use it's ok, if one has control.  But, one couldn't possibly make a
> proper package out of that, IMO, could you :(

I'm not making "proper" packages, but I'm happily making packages that a
lot of people use :-)

Let's not re-hash the discussion why I think "proper" packages are a
really really stupid idea...

/D


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