Sarang Lakare wrote: > > but why are you building packages? use rpm!! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. I am using rpm to build the src rpms, ie, "rpm --rebuild <my.src.rpm>". I do this to optimize the binaries for my i686 (Athlon system). In any case, I COULD install the precompiled binaries, but that wouldn't solve the underlying problem. Linux is supposed to have added power vs MacOS and Windoze in that you the user can take the source, alter it, or recompile it as you wish. If I cannot compile/build the source, then one of the big benefits of linux is lost. It also indicates that something is fundamentally flawed with the install. There are some apps that you can only get in source form. If I cannot build simple rpms built by and for Mandrake, then what luck am I going to have with generic source from other apps? I NEED some of those apps that I MUST compile myself. As it stands, I have, it appears, a very high chance of failure for compiling ANYTHING, src.rpm or tarball. This is not OK. I build my own kernels from tarballs too, making the kernel entirely optimized and built for my specific needs and system. Need I now also worry about the integrity of my kernels because I have some obnoxious error in my system (damn .LPRO). No amount of recompiling kde ANYTHING fixes this problem. It is ONLY a kde problem too. No gnome/gtk app is affected, ONLY kde and ALL its apps. There is a flaw in qt or kde, or in the way they operate on a Mandrake 7.2beta system, it would appear. praedor
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