On Wednesday 06 April 2005 00:13, Marvin Dickens wrote: >On Tuesday 05 April 2005 22:24, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 05 April 2005 21:57, Daniel Nilsson wrote: >> >On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:22:14AM -0400, Charles Lepple wrote: >> >> On Apr 4, 2005 12:52 AM, Gene Heskett >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [gawd, lemme snip some of this] >> >> I'm working on it. Call me a clueless advanced user if you'd >> like. :-) > >Thing is, I like to install from source. So, regardless if the > distro uses apt, rpm or whatever, I'm still hoarked - RPM and apt > only know about their packages and have no knowledge of things > installed from source. Even Gentoo is clueless regarding source > installations. As for the NFS thing, I agree that that would be > nightmare mode.
That makes two of us Marvin. I've also installed a lot of tarballs here, often being forced to because the fix is not forthcoming from teh fedora camp, for what is a major problem, such as much of kde going away just for hovering the mouse over the name of a printing related util in the kde menu! That didn't go away with my building a new kde-3.3.0 either. So on a hunch, cups & gimp-print got nuked and a much newer cups, gimp, & gutenprint got installed from tarball builds. I've since experimented some, enough to determine that cups was the culprit from 1.1.19 thru 1.1.21-rc1, but the final 1.1.21 (now 1.1.22 here) fixed it right up. That was nearly a year ago, and I don't think the rpms for cups have been fixed yet. I mean its a kde problem, why should redhat, whose married to the gnome fix a kde problem? Right? Yeah sure, don't hold your breath. I've always built sane/xsane from tarballs as much of the beta testing of its drivers for the Epson 1250u scanner was done on this machine. So I now have quite list of stuff that drives apt-get plumb out of its skull, and I'd wind up with a useless ghost of what this machine can do if I was dumb enough to give apt-get the -f option. But at the moment, everything I want to do is running just fine, so why should I fix something thats not broken. Yum at least, only looks at the dependencies of what you ask it to install, faint praise maybe, but apt is IMO way too fussy. >Oh yeah, Gene - I know from other lists that you are definitely > not clueless. Thanks for the flowers Marvin, but I find as the years go by, that I have to be given the first clue, or at least turned and pointed the right way at least so I know which way to head off into the trees looking for the next one. That can be frustrating when one has made his living for the last 55 & change years chaseing errant electrons for a living. A notice if you will, of the thinker slowing down, much as I hate to admit it. What other list? My kmail list of lists is slightly more than 1 screen high, about 37 at last count. :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
