Yaron <jethro at freakzilla.com> writes: > 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? No. I simply don't have time to study each package with the intensity needed to make sure I've configured it validly. Or, if it's *really* just as simple as make config; make or something, then there's no reason to worry about the rpm, since they didn't make any decisions for me. I spent several years as a news admin at various sites (4 at one time or another), building cnews and INN from source as needed, applying patches, and so forth. It's *so* wonderful not to have to deal with that any more. Whereas if I did have to deal with that for every single package, I'd simply give up. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/