Re: make command understanding
Thanks all for all the detailed answers :) very helpful.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
> Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compiling
>> is a good solution to go-with, except installing the package from
>> repository. i have heard that people always suggest to install
>> packages from repository not by compiling. i know repo should contain
>> old release but stable one however, for more option and newer releases
>> one should need to compile it from source.
>>
>> but my question is, what pros do normally ?
>
> Unless you've got a good reason (it isn't in the repository, or you need
> something more recent than has made it to the repository, or you want to
> make some modifications to it are the three that come to mind
> immediately), install from the repository. There are three major
> advantages to this:
>
> (1) the developer may be working with a directory structure that's
> different from the Debian structure. The package maintainer will
> have patched the package to match the Debian structure.
>
> (2) the version from the repository will (probably -- exceptions
> constitute bugs) have been compiled and tested against versions of
> libraries and other programs that you've got on your system.
>
> (3) if you can't install, the package manager will know what other
> packages you need in order to fix the situation.
>
> If you compile from source, (1) says you can get stuff installed
> someplace weird, (2) says you may trigger bugs that wouldn't have turned
> up in the version in the repository, and (3) says if compilation fails
> you're completely on your own to guess what additional software you need
> to install -- and that may not be in the repository either.
>
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