[SWLUG] Re: Starting with Linux

[Foeh Mannay]

It was a long time ago now, a couple of years, but I do remember the
only way I could get things like xchat and gaim to upgrade was via
source - around half the applications I tried to install with tarballs
wouldn't compile due to out of date / non-existent libraries, but that
was still a better chance than using RPM or YaST :o\

Foeh

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 17:33, Gerald Davies wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:17:24 +0000, Foeh Mannay
> <foeh.mannay at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > and try to install them. Then I'd have even more failed dependancies. I
> > think I could count the number of apps I upgraded via RPM on one hand!
> > Tarballs proved to be far more reliable, and ironically, much easier!
> > YaST was just worthless.
> > 
> 
> 
> you sure they prove more reliable?  i understand what you're saying
> about RPM and what not, but tarballs are no more reliable.  you can
> still get in a mess when upgraded things from source. and when
> uninstalling things if  you're not careful.
> 
> i've not got a problem with ports/apt/rpm/tars/etc.  the one thing i
> would say is that MDK used to do some odd things with headers and
> stuff, but on the whole they're much of a muchness.
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