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Re:Why developers should care about system packages by rmc on Sunday January 16, 2011 @12:38PM (#2109728)
Theres a great programme called checkinstall that gets you 90% there. Rather than running 'make install' run 'checkinstall', or rather than 'sudo python installscript.pt', run 'sudo checkinstall python installscript.py'
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Re:Why developers should care about system packages by garethr on Sunday January 16, 2011 @03:42PM (#2110177)
Checkinstall is brilliant: http://checkinstall.izto.org/

It's also guilty of being unattractive to the developers I'd love to see use it. The site says "Recent News: Dec 26th, 2009" and then concentrates on a NOTE TO SLACKWARE 8.0 USERS.

Showing the hello world of checkinstall would be much better imho, and it's what developers from the web world expect.

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Re:Why developers should care about system packages by regularfry on Sunday January 16, 2011 @08:06PM (#2110842)
Checkinstall of Python and VirtualEnv is the only sane way I've found to do python development and deployment when you're developing on Maverick and deploying to Lenny.
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