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Re: SRPM



>for them (almost all of Caldera and RH users, that is those who do not go 
>the sane way of recompiling almost everything from the sources, such as
     ^^^^
>Ira for example).
Are you kidding? You really think I (or busy administrator of tens of
machines, which for my luck I am not ;) have nothing to do but get all the
things installed from the source? What for? If you need to install
webserver, you customise it and compile it, but if you need to install 20
little programs, it would  be much saner just to rpm them (in the ideal
case that one who did RPMs didn't screw it... And RH doesn't screw small
things too much. And if it does - well, there is many others)...
Ideally, sane program from sane packager doesn't need recompilation at
all, all customisation via configs. 
Except that you are over-paranoid, but then it's good for you to review
the sources also, and when you get the time to *work*, remains unclear.
Also, I would like you to imagine how much time would take to build full
production/development environment from sources... Even on one machine...
It sounds very cool, take sources and compile, but when you need it
to be time-effective, good packages is the sanest thing I can imagine.
About slackware: my linux is of slackware origin ;) so I used slackware
packages for a time... Believe me, I was really happy to get rid of
them... It was too messy. Dunno, maybe it got better, but how it was then
- RPM beats it with hands tied and eyes closed. Really hope they've got
some package management mechanism for now...
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