Whenever possible this is exactly what I do.
Since the recompilation assures compatibility with existing libraries the
resulting RPM's are normally far more stable than pre-compiled ones...
Yes you've isolated the point of contention...
Often the "unsupported" package releases are done by people who are hacking
together changes for their own systems...
The source RPM's are not always provided and they do not also provide RPM's
for other releases.
This is unforunate.
-JMS
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Digital Wokan
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] Lost sight of point (was: WAIT!! STOP!!...)
The biggest contributor to this problem are those submitting i686
packages to the "unsupported" packages. I once enjoyed updating to the
versions of programs ahead of Mandrake's official support of a package.
Now, I'm stuck with things like Mozilla 0.7 because the person who built
and submitted the Mozilla 0.8 package didn't read up on how to make an
i586 binary package.
I'm beginning to think my only hope for staying up to date is to
download .src.rpm's only and use those for updating my system.
