On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Declan Moriarty wrote: > Was it [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote on Thursday 07 February 2002 16:03: > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Declan Moriarty wrote: [snip] > > > Quote from INSTALL-X.org - 3.6.2: > > > 3.6.2. Other GNU tools > > > > What is INSTALL-X.org? Did you actually mean that to be an URL or is it > > the INSTALL from the XF86-3.6.2 ? If so may I suggested that you update > > your X to XF86-4.x ? > > No. I d/l the source, and INSTALL-X.org untars into the ~/xc/ directory. It > looked as close to an INSTALL doc as there was, so I started readingit. Did I > do something stupid? (Reading the doc, I mean)
Definitely not! Didn't mean to imply the opposite :-) I just didn't remember the INSTALL file being called INSTALL-X.org. [snip] > > Doesn't Mandrake provide RPMs that you could use to update your > > distribution? > > Yeah they do - Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, learn nothing, and > upgrade if that system didn't work because the next one will ;-). Mandrake > use iso images - fine if you have a cable modem (I don't). > > I've sat on lists and watched people cry from updating rpms and downloading > binaries. They all finish up d/ling the source. Well, this is a good attitude, except that there *are* source RPMs and you can read the specfiles, see what they're doing, edit them, build your own RPMs, learn, have fine-grained control and then you have a package based system, which _does_ have advantages unless you are running a minimalistic distro like KRUD or Slackware. However, to each his own! Best wishes, -Oisin _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
