Giles Hamlin wrote:
>
> >
> > So to what do I owe the extreme pleasure of you popping your head out of your
> > arse long enough to share your enlightening personality with me?
> >
> > Do us a favor and put it back.
> >
> >
> Ladies, ladies, c'mon calm down.
>
> He's got a point - it is handy to be able to compile RPMs for situations
> just as these when the ready made RPMs don't work, but then so do you -
> Mandrake has a reputation as an easy to use distro, and your average
> newbie doesn'tt know, and in an ideal world shouldn't have to know, the
> first thing about upgrading.
>
> But let's not turn this mailing list into a flame war huh guys?
Giles, I have to agree. The thing I find a little frustrating right now
is although it would be reletively easy to compile from source, being
this close to final, I would like to stay as stock as possible. A simple
word or two from the Mandrake team (who I know are darn busy) would go a
long way to keeping flame wars down.
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