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Re: New Releases
- To: linux ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Subject: Re: New Releases
- From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Date: 30 Sep 2001 09:50:17 -0400
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- In-Reply-To: "Nadav Har'El"'s message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:44:39 +0200"
- Organization: Speaking for myself only.
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"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:
> In the olden days, before the advent of "linux distributions", "rpms"/"debs",
> and stuff like that, people used to take seperate software packages, and
> compile them and install them themselves. When a new version of xemacs came
> out, you'd download the monster's source (around 20MB) and spend a couple of
> hours in installing it. When a new tcl/tk (say) library came out, you'd
> spend an afternoon installing it and everything depending on it (say,
> tkman, tkinfo and ical).
Even that has become, IMHO, much easier. I do install things like
xemacs, TCL/Tk, GNATS, etc from sources at times (on inferior - grin -
OSes such as SunOS, Win2k, etc). Goes much smoother these days than
5-6 years ago...
Having said that, I have an aversion to installing from sources on
Linux, for all the reasons you stated, and all the reasons that Harvey
Stein listed a few years ago in a similar discussion (search the
archives). Sometimes I still do, having no other choice ("correct"
versions of GNATS, gnus on RH).
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
If it aint't broken it hasn't got enough features yet.
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