Re: why do source rpms have "prep" dependencies?

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On Sunday 09 September 2007, Frank Cox wrote:
>On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:47:33 -0400 (EDT)
>
>"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> if someone
>> wants to simply RTFS, it's a bit disconcerting to learn that you need
>> to download another five source rpms to do it.
>
>I don't know if this is useful in your situation, but I'm pretty sure  File
>Roller can "look inside" of srpm files and extract the contents for you as
>desired.

So can mc, I use it frequently for that.

>--
>MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com



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