On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:58:30 -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: > >Until things in the Linux world improve greatly, you need to use the RPMs >that your distribution creator provides, or build your own RPMs from source >and install the resulting binaries.
In my experience with Linux on i386, you will eventually end up building quite a few things from source anyway. It depends on how bleeding-edge you want to be, but if you eg. have a slightly outdated base system (say based on SuSE Linux 7.1), and you want apache 2.0.43 - well, you either upgrade your base, or build apache from source (last I looked SuSE didn't provide a ready-built RPM for apache2). >Once you start down that road, though, >you're going to find yourself spending a lot of time and having a lot of >problems, because you're taking on the role of a developer, and not just a >consumer/user. Yes and no. Building from source doesn't make you a developer - but it does make you much more aware of what goes on in your system though :-) To a lot of people "build from source" == "./configure && make && make install" . /Per regards, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console.
