Re: RFC: don't ask users to do 'sudo make install'

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Subject: Re: RFC: don't ask users to do 'sudo make install'\r
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+On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:05:02 +0100, Rainer M Krug <R.M.Krug@gmail.com> wrote:\r
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+> Because of these problems, I use checkinstall to create a deb file ( I\r
+> am using Ubuntu) which I can then un-install again if I want to, or\r
+> update, or anything the package manager can do.\r
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+Note that in recent versions of notmuch, "make debian-snapshot" is\r
+probably a better option than checkinstall, since it uses the "official"\r
+debian packaging that ships with notmuch.\r
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+I don't know how practical/useful it is to support something similar for\r
+other distros / OSes, but we could certainly consider it.\r
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+d\r