On 2007-05-29, 20:58 GMT, Chris Jones wrote: > Bottom line. I am sure that someone can quote some odd esoteric > package for which there is no rpm repo available, but for the > main ones most people use, there are MUCH better and safer > alternative than the old 'install from source' mantra... And then they should package it themselves and push it into Fedora Extras (err, what used to be Fedora Extras), get proper package review, and then they have a lot of fun on the top of properly packaged software ;-). Matej