"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: <snippage> > >Unless Red Hat has some philosophical problems with recommending > >people use source tarballs? > > It's an open system, and people are free to use whatever they > like, be it RPM packages, tarballs, or flipping binary switches > on a parallel port. Of course. The question pertained to Red Hat's management philosophy, not the software capabilities. I wanted to know why "roll your own" wasn't mentioned as a possible solution to the OP's question. Rinaldi -- The Devil is wise not because he is the Devil, but because he is old. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list