On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > Don't you have .src.rpms for these applications? > > That only helps when you have a build environment,
Sure - but build enviornment is very simple to set up.
It involves installation of quite a few devel packages, which the user may not want - especially if they are on dialup (updating takes longer as there are devel packages that have to be updated as well)