On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, James M. Rogers wrote:
>Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 09:22:06 -0700
>From: James M. Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.1 and Red Hat Linux 6.2
>
>You don't need an RPM for XFree 4.0
Right, but this is RedHat Linux, and polluting the system with
tar.gz installs is a "bad idea" (tm).
>Goto xfree.org and goto the proper download page for your computer.
>
>Get the Xinstall.sh and extract programs, then run the Xinstall.sh
>program and it will tell you what else you need to download. It will
>also give you more instructions about how to upgrade.
And is likely to pollute your RPM database. For something as
large as X windows, on a redhat system, I would STRONGLY
encourage someone to find RPM's or get someone to make them for
them (or make them yourself if you're adept at doing so).
Otherwise you will end up unable to install any applications that
are for X/KDE/GNOME or any other dependant X program without
FORCING RPM to ignore missing dependancies. This defeats the
purpose of having RPM in the first place, and thus 50% of the
purpose of RedHat.
That is just my opinion though. If you're more of a 'hackerish'
person, then the above concerns may be minimal. If you're any
sort of end user though, having to use --nodeps all the time
would be a large PITA.
One thought: ftpsearch.lycos.com
Regular expression search for: "^XFree86-4.*rpm$"
It will likely find something.
TTYL
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