George Toft wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Solaris has pkgadd, Linux has rpm (Debian/Slack have their own formats).
> ... 
> I understand what you are saying about being spoon-fed...
> Good SysAdmins, my their nature, are very time efficient (some call
> it lazy).  pkgadd -d packagename (or rpm -ivh packagename) is much
> more efficient than:
> make configure; make
> <swear>vi makefile
> make

actually I always include a "make -n install | more" here so I can make
<swear> sure that the macros finially resolve to what I think they
should, and things actually go where I want...

> make install
> <swear>ln -s items as necessary

EBo --