I am not so sure. However I can describe two events that occured to me
on a similar change.
1. I had "bmv" installed on my Slackware Linux system. However I
could not install the same on RedHat 5.1 as the "makefile" complained of
some strange error in making some ".h" files and stopped.
2. The TeX distribution here is different from that of Slackware and
better and has its directory structure like that suggested in "tug.org".
Also it seems that this one is better and so are the apps "dvips" and
"gs". Also I have some filters built-in.
Hope you shall get the answers to your questions from someone else.
Thanking you,
Partha Pratim Ghosh
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
>
> I don't want to start a "package war", but I'm thinking of switching
> from Slackware to Redhat. I don't give a fig about "ease of installation"
> - I've been installing Linux from 0.97. In fact, my concern is that Redhat
> won't let me remain "independant".
> Can I still get source tarballs and compile under Redhat? Does the
> "configure/make/make install" still work? Is there compatibility problems
> between "non-redhat" programs (i.e. source tarballs rather than .rpm) and
> glibc, etc? What if I want/need to install "non-Redhat" libraries?
> I'm assuming that if I install some stuff as source, it ruins the rpm
> database (in terms of dependancies, etc.). Is this correct?
>
> Or is a less user-friendly package like Slackware or Debian still a
> better choice for us renegades?
>
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