On 12/14/10, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 21:20 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >> Yeah, it's a PITA all right. You could download a project, and it >> could list a dozen library dependencies in a text file. So now you >> have to spend hours searching, downloading, reading manuals and >> compiling libraries (not to mention having to download any extra >> dependencies for those libs as well, and any tools used in the >> building process), and finally configuring the app to use the compiled >> libraries. And when the libs won't compile.. bleh! It's typical for >> many open-source C apps that I've tried compiling. > > But isn't this exactly what Apt and Yum are for? >
Yes, but I'm talking about having something platform-independent.
