Am Dienstag, 7. Juni 2005 03:15 schrieb Christoph Sch?fer: > 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. I consider > buying SuSE 9.3. Has anybody experience with that distro?
Hallo Christoph, I have been using SuSE since 7.2 (and now SuSE 9.2) and never had too much problems with compiling - since I had learned that with package distros you need to install additionally the devel-package of a package if "configure" complaints, that "prog x" is missing. Sometimes you need to compile also a library that is not up to date in the distro, but not very often - and without headaches. > I want to/have to: > > - build ghostscript 8.5x went fine, with parallel install, see wiki. > - build scribus 1.2.2cvs and 1.3cvs no problem > - build lprof no experience > - build inkscape 0.41 compiled, but the 0.41 static rpm works as well. > - build GIMP 2.2.6 haven't tried yet, because of no need. Cheers, Claudius
