From: Brandon Caudle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Besides, why use a tarball, if you can get an RPM? If you
>>don't want to use the package manager *when possible*, use
>>Rock Linux. It *only* uses tarballs.
>Well you would use a tarball because when you compile the source you
>can compile it the way you want it to be not the way some other person
> wants it to be like ./configure --with-pam-smbpasswd or ./configure
>--with-msdfs stuff that doesn't come compiled with an rpm
You can do the exact same thing with RPMs; you just use the SRC RPM. You
pass the parameters you want during the "rebuild" stage, and you get
back an RPM that has been compiled with those options, and optimized for
your architecture.
This way, you get the best of both worlds - software compiled with the
options you want, and that keeps the database of applications that have
been installed on your PC up to date.
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