That's how I used to feel before I had a life^H^H^H^Hfamily and a fulltime job. There just isn't enough hours in the day as it is, much less trying to find time to compile everything from scratch. If you have plenty of time in your day, more power to you. Yaron wrote: > > Hi, > > It seems to me like there are a heck of a lot of messages on this list > about RPM this, apt-get that, Helix-whatever the other. Anyone else here > prefer to download the tarball and build it all from scratch? > > I had to upgrade gcc for 2.4.* kernels (I had the one the docs said and it > still didn't build for Athlon!), and I figured, I've built gcc from source > on SunOS (that was fun), Solaris, DEC UNIX, AIX and IRIX - why not Linux? > So I did (: > > This is my usual meathod of software update, from kernels to gimp to pine, > whatever. At least on my own personal machines. Anyone else feel the same > way? > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list