On Jan 4, 2008 10:44 PM, Chris Knadle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
>

No, I mean I go to all that trouble to create a custom version of
growisofs and yum replaces it with the NEW! IMPROVED! growisofs x+1
(that now protects you from wasting a whole cd by forcing you to put
iso's less then 1.44megs on a floppy) next time I update.
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