On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:41, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote: > Darn RPM's are also broken. In fact, the source RPMs are often broken. Which RPMS? RPMS typically do exactly what they advertize: They install and work without problem on the platform they were intended to run. Of course you'll have problems taking a rh9 rpm to other distros and versions. But they offer a starting point. I have never had a problem with GTK2 on rh9. And I have rebuilt the RPM from src.rpm (applying that silly menu shadow patch) and they worked fine. > > You should be able to install from source when the source is reasonably designed. > And you can, easily, when you reasonably think a little bit about what you're doing and what the rules for making it work are and know a bit about the system. Again. We're not talking about building an app here. We're talking about a system-level library (from the user's point of view). This is the first and foremost the job of the distro maintainer, not the user. > Ruben > > > -- Michael Torrie <torriem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
