> 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. It also gets to be a pain in the ...clock if you have 10 computers to deal with. Andy > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >