On Saturday 11 August 2007, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * John R. Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> [2007-08-08 17:11:46 -0400]: > > Debian users like all other Linux users can download a tarball > > and go through > > ./configure make make install > > > > This gives you maximum choice of versions, at the cost of > > violating the Debian packaging protocols. I use Slackware, but > > when I need a new or older version of some program my first stop > > is NOT the Slackware site. There are more/better choices > > elsewhere. > > > > John C. > > John, > > You probably grind your own flour to make your own sourdough bread > and slaughter your own cows for beef. Oh, and you patch KDE under > FreeBSD every night before brushing your teeth and going to bed. > None of the above. If the package in a recent version comes with the current Slack distro then I don't look elsewhere. Unfortunately that is often not the case. Some programs I use regularly are not distributed with any Linux distro.
> Try to open your eyes and realize that not all users are made in > your image. There is a time and place for every method of > installing and using a program whether it's an automatically > installed binary package, a source package recompilation, a > checkinstall/xstow run, or a raw compilation from source. Your > harping about how great it is to compile everything under the Sun > on Slackware is not productive in all but few corner cases. Lighten > up please. > > Cheers, > > Alex. What I don't do is restrict myself to only that software that is available for me in a particular distibution in a particular form such as Deb or RPM or even a slack package. It is my experience that precompiled programs were usually prepared for an environment other than my own . Or often a program is only available in a tarball. When everybody is happy, I am happy for them . When someone can't use what they want because it hasn't yet been prepared for them in the prepackaged form they need then I suggest ./configure etc. It is the only way I can obtain programs such as HTCOBOL or antiword. And it works smoothly for most other programs such as Scribus. If I had to have everything predigested for me I would problably be on Vista, not Linux. -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com
