On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:23:30AM -0500, Larry Troxler wrote:
It seems that you either have to install everything using RPMs, or forget RPMs entirely and install everything from what ever you find on the author's web sites. Lately I find it's much simpler to take the second approach. Certainly if someone has had some luck combining the two methods, I'd like to hear some details of how they go about it.
In my early years as a Linux user, I was not using package management like rpm, I was simply compiling and installing (./configure;make;make install). It was fun, because I was able to try many obscure softwares very quickly, but the my computer became very messy and I was unable to keep track of what I installed. Using package management is better.
For PD, it is possible to survive without package management, but it can get messy real quick. I'm still in the process of building a rpm for most CVS externals, and I'm glad I did because it really is a pain to compile that CVS mess. Sadly, I'm still fighting with complicated (and buggy) softwares like Gem and pdp/pidip.
-- Marc