On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
I always install everything with Pacman when I can because it can track the files in my system tree for me.
Don't get me wrong though :) Just earlier today, I was arguing with a user who installed imagemagick manually and who wanted to trick pacman into believing imagemagick was installed, so that he could install inkscape. I just told him he didn't understand the purpose of a package manager and that he really had to make a package for his custom imagemagick. I just make exceptions in extreme cases where : - the application is configured by source - it is actively developed and using latest code is fine or even recommended - it installs two files (one binary and one man page) - it isn't a dependency of anything else Anyway I guess we could argue a long time on this subject. In the end, it's a bit a matter of taste.