On Wednesday 12 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Regardless of which distro or distro version you are using, replacing > > > the distro installed package with something you compile yourself is > > > almost always a bad idea, especially when you are downgrading > > > > Do qualify your assertion (eg if you are utterly clueless then ...) > > because otherwise the advice is. well um, um, not useful > > The original poster has a very long history of asking questions > on this mailing list. From that history I have been able to > gauge his level of expertise and I adjusted my answer accordingly
I absolutely agree, was just making the point so that <some strange bod> reading your advice might get the idea that building your own packages is not really possible, whereas (as you point out) the answer depends on yourself. :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
