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>
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