On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:32:10PM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote: > David (and all), > > Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with pacages > in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is > encouraging but, nonetheless, I know occasions will arise. I've had to > build/install by hand X, glibc, postgres, the kernel, gcc, freeamp, and > others because of needing bleeding edge versions that fix bugs or because, > in debugging the current version, I needed a non-stripped binary. use slackware. seriously, thats what you need. you can either use a packaging system or you don't, but not both. (for major stuff like libc, XFree et al) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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