On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:01:19AM -0500, Gabe Turner wrote: >> > >> about the Slackwareians, though ;-) > > Right... a tarball with a script is much to simple for RedHat's > overly complicated vision of the world. Personally, I love Slacks > packaging system... Doesn't get in the way of compiling from > source. Yeah, I personally love the thought of a file overwriting my /etc/passwd with something else without my knowledge. None of the packaging systems prevent you from building from source. Noone say you can't set your make install path to /usr/local/my_source_installs_path or whatever. The key difference is, if I am building something from source, and make fails I can look at that and go "Hmm...o.k. $apt-get install <missing-header-file>" rerun make and I am golden. > >Gabe -- Ben Lutgens Work: 612.379.5941 Cell: 651.387.9065 Home: 651.703.9541 Systems Administrator Sistina Software Inc. http://www.globalfilesystem.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org