Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> YaST's capability of unpacking .tgz-Archives is a leftover from ancient
> times, when Software Packages where gzipped tar Archives (like Slackware
> has). These Packages contained the whole directory structure and binaries
> as well as pre- and postinstall scripts. It was never intended to be used
> for _source_-Packages. This would be a hard job, since every source
> package requires different rules on how to make a binary of it and has
> a different directory structure...

True, but it would nice if there was some way to tell Yast that a
previously installed package has been upgraded by a source compile. 
 
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