Re: Idea: a gui for automatic ./configure && make

[Paraplegic Racehorse <paraplegic_racehorse myrealbox com>]

Ikke <eikke <at> eikke.com> writes: 
 
>  
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 19:18 +0100, Francesco Montorsi wrote: 
> > Hi all, 
> > ... 
> Wouldn't it be fantastic if you'd be able to use your distribution's 
> package manager, or some similar system like AutoPackage etc? 
>  
> Installing lots of things from source is not always healthy for a system 
> (can and will confuse your package manager), so I don't think it's a 
> good idea to "make it easy" for end-users to do this. 
 
Try CheckInstall + kConfigure. It's not a GNOME combination, one being a 
CLI-only tool and the other being a KDE tool, but it works really well. 
 
CheckInstall - http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ 
kConfigure   - http://kconfigure.sourceforge.net/ 
 
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