On Monday 07 May 2001 16:25, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Monday 07 May 2001 16:05, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > What broke when you started installing from sources? I have been
> > running mandrake 7.2 for quite some time - and recompiled half the stuff
> > (kernel, bind, sendmail ...). No particular hassles that I can notice.
>
> I was compiling some GNOME apps, don't remeber exactly, and run into header
> file conflicts.
>
> X apps were especially troubles. Did compile few things successfully but
> got tired of mdk tag everywhere and dumped RHL6.2 on it. This was way
> back, somewhere last August...
>
> It doesn't have many headers etc in (mostly expected) places. Everything is
> tweaked and may not work with third party sources.
>
> May be I should have RTFMed but didn't bother. I was not especially fan of
> Mandrake then. Anyway now trying Mandrake 8 for kernel+XF864+KDE2+Reiserfs.
> I can afford few source incompatibilities if any.....;-)
>
> Shridhar
Mandrake normally keep rpms updated the most compared to other distros. Maybe
the header file conflicts are just missing devel packages.
I personally hate the idea of RPMs because of the deep dependencies.. I'm
moving to a better solution soon :)
-Faisal.
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