On 01/05/2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Would you mind leaving the 'p' word out of this discussion? The same > principle applies to all software that isn't recompiled and repackaged > between every version, including the user's own and other programs where > source is available but you don't want to have to rebuild (if we did want to > recompile every week we'd be running gentoo...). Pretending this is > specific to proprietary software puts the wrong spin on the conversation > here. The only difference being proprietary makes in this case is that > someone else needs to do this work and probably maintain specific versions > separately for each fedora version instead of every using doing that > himself. Except that ... where RPM packages are concerned, this usually happens with proprietary software. I've never built my own RPM packages that way, nor do most sane people. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
