On 09/04/2011 09:30 PM, Gary Gatling wrote:
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> 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!

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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
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