On 09/04/2011 09:30 PM, Gary Gatling wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> On 09/04/2011 05:49 PM, Gary Gatling wrote: > Why I use repoforge is to easily get all those awesome fedora packages so > I can build interesting software that would otherwise fail. So I am > extremely grateful for that service and also the stuff that actually > helps me use CentOS as a laptop OS. Things like vlc so I can watch DVD > movies. Or drivers for my wireless card in an old OS like centOS 5. A lot > of the stuff I build from source are weird emulators that there are no > rpms for. And they are only going to be on one box for one user. So thanks > for all these packages here. I do appriciate the service.
Be aware that ElRepo has numerous kmod drivers with weak-updates, so kernel change does not need neither dkms nor new kmdl package. The best I have seen yet. > > I'll shut up now and completely agree with folks if you hack the OS you > shouldn't expect the repo to fix around your oddities. like with /lib vs > /lib64. Its not a bug. How about somehow redirecting /usr/lib -> /usr/lib64 just for Firefox? like chrooted alias or something like that? This is just an brainstorm, I like rpms more then anything! -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
