On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 23:30, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Yes, it's your freedom to give your 3 year old child a loaded gun and > let it play with it. A "configure && make install" run as root is of a > comparable quality. The part that you don't explain here is how the same person who would have some mysterious problem with installing a non-packaged program locally as the author designed will magically be able to encapsulate the solution to that problem by writing a spec file. > All I do is to tell you: If you want to avoid trouble, you're better off > packaging packages as rpms on rpm based systems. I'll agree in general, but still don't see how a person who would have trouble with a stock compile/install is going to have that problem fixed. It just becomes a subset of the problems in building the packaged version. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
