On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:48:06AM -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
The right (and sometimes painful) answer is to use rpm's for your installs. I've recently been teaching myself to make my own rpm's. It's not real easy, because the documentation is lacking, but you should be able to do most basic things ok. And, the rpm's figure out your dependencies on the fly, and will make later installation of that utility in other places a real snap.
A hearty amen to that. I was too lazy to make a .deb for my customized mutt install, and I've wanted to install it on 2 other systems since. And my dependencies are weird and I have to --force sometimes when I know I have something. And if someone knows the name of that program that makes separate trees for your tarballs and soft links 'em into your main tree, that could be the most useful thing for the original poster. But alas, I've forgotten, my mind weakened by the simplicity of Debian. -Chuck