On Oct 24, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Mark Adams wrote:
Matt wrote:
What's the worst that can happen? It fails to compile, and you still needThe worst that can happen? I descend once again into dependency hell and spend hours loosing my mind over this. I totally alienate my sense of well being and take up arms on a shooting spree that threatens everyone in a 400 mile circle leaving my children without any parents.
to find a packaged version. You'll be no worse off than you are now.
Fortunatley, that didn't happen. I snagged a copy of source and it compiled smoothly. It seems to be working just fine for now.
Stupid question (I've got TONS of them :-) ...
When you only install programs from source, how do you know when upgrading them that there aren't remnants of binaries or libraries scattered around the OS? I grew up having to use Windows, so please forgive the question; I had one too many instances of uninstallers getting rid of the program then having old DLL's and older registry entries left behind (and before that, old .ini files). So when using source compiles, I have this ingrained flinch towards the idea of just running a compile and installing the results then trying to do an upgrade if there's no version control, etc. built into it (which I suppose is why RPM and apt-get and all the other packagers are so popular...supposedly they help prevent conflicts from upgrades)
-Bart
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