it's not that i'm afraid of compiling my own, but with the package managers in modern distributions it's normally best to keep everything under the control of rpm, dpkg, apt-get or what ever. On Sat May 22 2004 06:21 am, Kristiaan Lenaerts wrote: > Hi > > My guess is that a lot of people are afraid of compiling. I have to > admit I did the same when I just started using linux, having to learn > how to install a program, using a package-manager... I was afraid of > using self-compiled things, because I had no idea how to uninstall it if > it did't work. Working with packages gives *some* comfort, because > that's easy to use, and that's the way the system installed itself (and > updates itself). > > Also, not knowing where programs go after they are compiled, what all > those "/usr/lib /usr/bin ..." dirs are, what has to go where... It is so > comfusing at first, that I can imagine that most people (I did) just use > the package manager, it just works (most of the time). > > But I do agree, since I started compiling wine (gentoo - now using the > cvs), a lot of things just worked that didn't before. Now, it is well > possible that has more to do with the version of wine, than actually > compiling it yourself, but the packages are outdated most of the time... > > just my experience... > > Krist > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users -- Oh i've slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux-dev _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
