Non-native RPM or compile?

[Lars Eighner]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Bob Goodwin wrote:

> On 23/08/11 20:11, Lars Eighner wrote:
>> I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15.
>> I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture.
>>
>> In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it
>> myself?
>>
>
>        You may not like "gramps" but it works and is available via yum.

It's not so much disliking gramps as having a big stack of php functions to
query a lifelines database and lifelines report-language scripts to produce
pages customized to my site.

Also apparently to get a command-line image viewer, I have to
compile/install zgv since, I discover the fb in fbi stands for framebuffer.

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