kde3 rocks!

[Douglas J Hunley]

On Saturday 06 April 2002 18:12, Tim Wunder wrote:
> So you compile as root? I've been compiling everything as user, then su'ing
> to root to run checkinstall...

I do everything as root!
Keeps me on my toes.

(and please, leave the "oh my god. dont do that" argument in the grave 
everyone)

> I'll look into this, I recall you mentioning something about this a while
> back. I've pretty much left checkinstallrc alone (I just installed it on my
> home box, prior to compiling KDE 2.2.2. Installed it at work a while ago).

It's neat to customize it. You can have it build RPMS by default and then do 
'checkinstall -y' and it will answer all the question for you. definately 
want to turn off the STRIP cause it sometimes can't tell the file it's 
stripping is a library. that can be bad

> Why specify configure flags when they're the default? For qt, you've
> specified -release -shared -no-nas-sound -sm -xinerama -xrender -xft
> -no-tablet  and -xkb, all of which seem to be the default, according to
> ./configure --help

I'm anal. Sure, the help output says it's the default, but does the code 
actually do that? also, what if it detects those libs? does the default 
"change".

>
> Also, you've listed qt-x11-free-3.x.x. I'd downloaded qt-copy-3.0.3, what's
> the difference?

name of the tarball

>
> You've placed qt3 in /usr/lib. Is that just personal preference? Why not
> /usr/local/lib, or /opt?

I consider it a system lib. Hence, /usr/lib. I hate the whole /usr/local 
abomination. I only put self-contained apps in /opt.

>
> Why --prefix=$KDEDIR ... --with-qt-dir=$QTDIR, again, aren't these the
> default?

anal. I figure, why take the chance? I type the command out once, then just 
keep pulling it back from the shell history...

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