On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 19:11 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. > I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture. > > In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it > myself? The optimal solution here would be for you to take the OpenSuSE source RPM, extract it, modify the spec file so that it corresponds to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines[1] and then submit it for package review[2] in Fedora. That way others can use this tool as well. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
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