On 3/9/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:07:00PM -0800, Lief Hendrickson wrote:
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> > When I launched firefox again it was ver 1.0.7
> > The reason I used /root as workspace is because that's the directory where
> > firefox put the file in the download process. Is there a way to have
> > firefox download to another directory? And which one would be best to use
> > to execute the rpm command?
> >
>
> Not to speak for Carl, but I think he might have been more concerned for
> doing compiles from /root as opposed to rpm installs.
>
Two concerns which I perhaps did not emphasize properly.
1) don't browse and download while logged in as root
2) newbies don't even want to think about compiling such a complex
program as Firefox.
2a) You didn't realize that downloading a src RPM implies that
compiling is necessary to make something useful out of it.
carl
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