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Author: KatolaZ
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New-Topics: [DNG] HOWTO recompile surf on Devuan (was: New documentation on the Surf browser)
Subject: Re: [DNG] New documentation on the Surf browser
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:20:42PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:10:00 -0400
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
> > I have found two browser-related devuan packages that have surf in
> > their names.
> >
> > surf
> > netsurf
> >
> > Is either of them relted to the surf you are documenting?
>
> Yes. The Surf I've documented is installed by the surf package. The more
> experience I get with Surf, the more I believe that the package should
> be installed only as a "hello world" exercise, but later uninstalled
> and replaced by a custom configured make_clean;make;make_install
> installation. All Suckless Tools software is configured by modifying
> the config.h file and then recompiling, meaning that the user can't
> modify any behavior the package bestows.


Hi,

I would actually suggest to recompile surf using the deb-src in the
repos. This is much cleaner, and results in a new .deb package that
can be installed and removed safely.

Actually, I have already put together a minimal howto on that (thanks
to one of the Devuan users on our IRC channel, who tried the steps
while I was writing down the material). I should put it somewhere,
maybe on dev1galaxy? It's based on surf, but most of the material can
be reused to compile other packages as well. I should just polish it a
bit.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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