why do source rpms have "prep" dependencies?

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Sun Sep 9 07:52:12 UTC 2007


On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:47:33 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> if someone
> wants to simply RTFS, it's a bit disconcerting to learn that you need
> to download another five source rpms to do it.

I don't know if this is useful in your situation, but I'm pretty sure  File
Roller can "look inside" of srpm files and extract the contents for you as
desired.

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