But, Steve, it's not a question of either or. Rather, it's a case of both and. Fedora does not prevent you from compiling from source. In fact, it encourages you to build rpms for your colleagues by providing rpmbuild for your compiling pleasure. \ Steve Holmes writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 08:53:00PM -0400, Keith Watson wrote: > > Aw was just pokin fun at those eternal source die hards. Gorsh > > Miss Janina, cain't a guy havez a bit o fun? > > Well, I might tend to lean twards the eternal source thingy simply > because many times, the precompiled package is flawed or leaves out > some piece critical to my needs. Slackware's php package comes to > mind. So I especially like the ability to compile from source. I > know Debian and Redhat probably have more binary packages available to > them than might Slackware so as a Slackware user, I probably run into > the need to compile from source; I don't mind that at all really, as > long as the compile is good. Now that checkinstall is available, one > can create his/her own slackware packages more easily now. > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAhmkQWSjv55S0LfERAh94AJ9QL9ShcNQXi61cPDKSLu1bPQjmnwCfUITY > bwSmKUytfDWR2tU+1YWwtiA= > =RGhT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
