I'll be a bit less polite and a bit more to the point. If Unix systems didn't insist upon scattering files all the hell over /etc, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include, /var/share/mybunghole, /opt/local/stupidlib, etc. etc... Think of the old System 7 and earlier for the Mac... how everything stayed neatly in its own directory. If Unix (or Windows!) were like that, it wouldn't be such a pain to compile and install things locally. It wouldn't vomit files all over a billion different directories. WINE is a -BIG- project, and DOES spew files all over the damned filesystem. On Sat, 22 May 2004, phrostie wrote: > Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 15:00:55 -0400 > From: phrostie <pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx> > To: wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Why isn't everyone compiling wine > > 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 compiling it yourself, but the packages are outdated most of the time...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 > -- Jessica L. Blank, Systems Administrator, twu.net Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
