On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 03:15 +0200, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Hi all, > > after having experienced Mandrake (9.2., 10, 10.1) as a wash-out when it > came to compiling from source since more than a year, I am looking out > for a distro that has everything aboard without giving me too many > headaches with respect to dependencies.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the binary distros I don't think you'll find much that satisfies those requirements. > I consider buying SuSE 9.3. Has > anybody experience with that distro? > > I want to/have to: > > - build ghostscript 8.5x Expect to need to do that for a while longer. > - build scribus 1.2.2cvs and 1.3cvs You can avoid that with Debian, where malex makes packages. If I get the time and get it working properly I'll be doing static-binary builds of Scribus for (almost) any distro, but that'll be a while off (need to rewrite the plug-in API first). > - build lprof Again, I don't think that'll be easy to get around... probably a build- it-yourself case again. > - build inkscape 0.41 I don't know if any distros bundle that. I wouldn't be too surprised if they do though. Of course, Inkscape will just release 0.42 ;-) but you can always use their static builds. > - build GIMP 2.2.6 Ditto. One of the current problems with Linux distros is that unless you use a source-based distro you do have to compile stuff, including some dependencies, when running very up-to-date software. I'm hoping we can eventually start shipping "big and fat, but working" static builds of Scribus to make life easier on users. -- Craig Ringer
