Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Oct 2005 13:29 UTC
"The magic in CheckInstall is that it learns everything your new app or package will add to your system, and then creates a binary installable package geared to the package manager you use, whether that be Slackware, RPM, or Debian. Optionally, it will also install the newly created package. But whether you install then or later, when the time comes that you want to remove the package from your system, all you need to do is run the appropriate command for your package manager."
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Let's hope Checkinstall continues to mature, it's already a great tool, but it still needs some extra polishing. For example, packages made with the latest version (granted the latest version was/is in beta the last time I checked) experience frequent errors saying the same applications can't install in a 'man' directory with some overwrite error (but I should be reporting this to the author and not a news site, I know, I know).
Three cheers for Checkinstall!