What about making your own .deb's though? How would you go about doing that?
Most packages, when compiled from source, will install their libraries and executables in /usr/local somewhere, which is okay because dpkg shouldn't touch that area. It must be possible though to put them all in a .deb file so that you can remove/reinstall them easily later? John Gay wrote: > > [...] There is usually a > make_install that will actually copy the binaries to the usual directories so > you can run the programme without having to include a path to it. This may > also > install man pages for the programme as well as other documentation.
