Fedora Core 4 and checkinstall

[Collins Richey]

On 1/14/06, Man-wai CHANG <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
> > I never said that there was harm.  You asked why its not included, and
> > the reason is that not many people are asking for it becuase not many
> > people need it.
>
> Hope that it's a business decision, not a technical one. :)
>

Grumble. It doesn't realy matter what the decision point was. Distros
like RHEL and Fedora as leadup to RHEL are geared toward those who
install prepackaged RPMs and not toward the tinkerers of the world who
want to install the latest and greatest source packages, and thus they
see little need for checkinstall  Similar situation with Debian
distros where the preponderance of users install deb packages and
perhaps the occasional RPM using alien.

So, get your checkinstall where it is offered and worry less about why
others aren't complaining that it's missing.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan