On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:16, Steve Grimaud wrote: > I wonder why I should have to "understand how the compiler > and linker work" in order to install a program. Because compiling a program is not installing a program. > If Linux and these install and configuration packages are so > powereful, the how in the world can a program not find files that I can > find with a minimal comprehension of linux commands? Because a computer is not a brain > The widespread popularity of rpms testifies to the facts that 1) > building from source is NOT a trivial task, and 2) someone can figure > out how to do it when they build the rpm. Trivial is context sensitive. Something which is trivial for a daily hacker, might not be trivial for my mom... - Things are certainly not perfect, but as previouly said build systems like garnome, are definitly an improvement ! - Be kind and gentle. If you want to improve things make a bug report, or send patches. But please, stop this thread and let valuable hackers like Sven and Owen work on bugfixing and improving the toolkit / desktop YOU use. Those guys are working for you, never forget it. You should be thanking them instead of whining. -- CÃdric _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
