On Friday 04 January 2008, matthew scouten wrote:
> I hate to compile other people's code.  There always seems to be some 
> library I am missing or some dev package I need.

   Compiling source can be an adventure, yeah.

> And next time I 'sudo yum update' I lose the changes.

   Not following that.  Does this mean that yum is automatically removing the 
dev libraries that you're installing to resolve the library dependencies to 
compile code?

> Open source does not excuse user un-friendly programming.
> If I want to waste half a dual layer DVD on a small ISO, the program
> has to let me do it. By all means give me a warning, but give me a way
> to override.

   Totally agree with you there.

   -- Chris

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