On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Peter wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > So it's the general census of the exp readers of this list that when > > one can one should install from rpm rather then source code. Correct? > > My experience shows that 9 out of 10 rpm install properly and 9 out of 10 > source code do not install for which reason I pretty much gave up on them. > > >
Yeah, but don't you just love the circular dependencies with rpms, and the need to upgrade hald of the system just to upgrade one package ? Seriously, packages are nice when what you want is pre-packaged, but you end up spending a lot of effort to keep your system up to date with the distro. Ken -- May the Source be with you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
