Re: Amateur e.

[zzzz <nospam [at] zapata.freeserve.co.uk>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:

>     zzzz> use rpm.
> 
> C'mon, let's be part of the solution.  RPM is part of the problem.
> Necessary, but still Microsoft-spawn.

huh?

> 
> The semantic content of "use rpm" is "go back to bed until somebody
> else packages up the RPMs correctly."  That's good for Red Hat and
> SuSE profits, not so good for users.

The subject is 'amateur e'.

You can't expect amateurs to build libraries. And if they can, they
might as well create the rpm packages on the fly.

You don't _have_ to wait for someone to package it. Package yourself

> Harvey already said he wanted the new versions, let's help him get
> them installed.  It's not that the RPMs won't be out tomorrow (they
> will), it's the principle of the thing.

my principle is: _NO_ software goes on my system in unpackaged form.
But that's probably my anal SysAdmin personality ;-)

Jules
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