On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Sacha Chua wrote:

> "jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Dependencies problem is only to those who uses rpm based installation.
> > Why dont give a tarballs a try?
>
> What, you've never had to track down all the build dependencies of a
> tarball?
>
> Never had to figure out precisely what packages and configure settings
> you needed in order to get something to work the way you wanted it to?
>
> I like my apt-get, and I'm sure people like emerge. I like being able
> to quickly install anything I want and yet be able to build the stuff
> I'm curious about. =)
>
> Then again, there are people who'll swear by .tar.gz... <shrug>

More like... <groan>
Sheesh.


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