So is Jesse's comment "Trying to stay source, on a rpm based distro is just asking for trouble." right or not? Coming from a Slackware (which i haven't left behind by the way...), i am used to compiling from source and prefer that cos you can assign your own flags to explicitly include or exclude things and build your package to suit your needs that perhaps an rpm wouldn't do. Am i right? And why would building from source be "asking for trouble", on an rpm based distro? thx, M:) Warren Togami wrote:> >I do so because it is far easier to explain to people "install these >packages" than dependencies and compilation. We will never convince the >average Windows user to switch to Linux if they have to learn tarball >compilation. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muhammad Akhtar" <makhtar@rim.net> To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:16 PM Subject: RE: media players > Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other *optional plugins. > Why is everyone so hot on rpms? -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
