On Tue, June 26, 2007 6:41 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Some of us occasionally have to use this quaint, old-fashioned method > called "Compiling From Source Code". > > Reasons for being afflicted with this disease include: > A) Crap repositories > B) Crap package maintainers > C) Ancient package versions > D) Avoiding breakage when Farty Fsckup upgrades to Gimpy Goober > E) Having, like, omygawd, a network with real Unix machines, too > F) Needing a *specific* version of some tool
What are you running that you have specific fined version needs for many packages? For the most part I just need your basic Emacs, OpenOffice, GCC and friends. The default packages in Ubuntu are fine for me. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
