[MPlayer-users] Re: Recoring this *.ram to WAV with mplayer works while logged in but not from at.

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-04-12, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:

>> The benefits of binary packages for distribution are obvious to me,
>> but what are the benefits of making a package for the machine you
>> could just directly compile install the software on?
>
> There is only one benefit that I know of: if you later want to install a
> package which claims to depend on the program you have compiled
> yourself, it will see that you have installed a package containing that
> program and *may* accept that as satisfying its dependency.

Oh, I understand that.  I just use equivs to do it.
;-)