Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 23, 2005 07:58 PM
I don't agree with you. Package managers are certanly a great thing, but they often introduce a huge series of annoying problems.
RPM cross-dependencies are a classic example; I think everyone should improve his ability to build from source, but I also know that lack of time doesn't help in this task.
At the end, my personal experience is:
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
Re:(Was:) Not all standard comment is bad
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 23, 2005 07:58 PMRPM cross-dependencies are a classic example; I think everyone should improve his ability to build from source, but I also know that lack of time doesn't help in this task.
At the end, my personal experience is:
"build from source as often as you can"
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