Re: [TCLUG:15263] Reading Red Hat rpms

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

nryberg@uspsoig.gov wrote:
> 
> And some others of us don't have the time to compile from the source code,

...or the disk space...

> and fix the problems that seem to inevitably come up.  Personally, I haven't
> yet had a problem with a rpm.  Does that make me a techno-weenie?  Yup.  But
> at least the programs I install work.

I really appreciate the dependency checking that goes on with packages,
although it can cause problems if you compiled a library instead of
installing it as an RPM or whatever..

Then again, much of that problem goes away with configure scripts (but
then, binary tgz's don't have configure scripts...)

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