Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed May 30 15:47:55 UTC 2007


Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2007-05-29, 20:58 GMT, Chris Jones wrote:
>> Bottom line. I am sure that someone can quote some odd esoteric 
>> package for which there is no rpm repo available, but for the 
>> main ones most people use, there are MUCH better and safer 
>> alternative than the old 'install from source' mantra...
> 
> And then they should package it themselves and push it into 
> Fedora Extras (err, what used to be Fedora Extras), get proper 
> package review, and then they have a lot of fun on the top of 
> properly packaged software ;-).
> 
> Matej
> 

This is why I want to learn how to make packages.  One more thing for my 
list of things to learn.  :)

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