Re: [TCLUG:15891] GTK+ and RPM

[kyle matteson <kmatteson@talkware.net>]

daniel hit my point exactly. having the programs compiled for your specific
processor type is enough of an incentive for me, as well as like he said, its
kinda cool to be able to go in and change things or just get an idea of the
program. (i think i'm about 70/30 as far as failure/sucess rates go on that,
but hey, that's what learning is for :). and lastly, compiliing against
libraries you already have usually creates very little headaches compared to
rpm's and dependency issues (from my experiences anyway).

kyle



Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Daniel Taylor wrote:
>
> > Having your binaries optimized for _your_ system instead of
> > Joe Average 486 for one thing.
> >
> > Having the sources on hand can be a great inspiration to getting
> > in there and poking about, maybe learning something in the process.
> > (like--Don't poke it there!)
> >
> > Many binaries come staticly linked agains libraries that you might
> > already have installed on your system, so compiling your own can save
> > space.
>
> Thanks, Daniel. That pretty much sums up what I've come up with so far as
> reasoning for a source-based Linux distribution--especially #2 above. I'll
> echo Daniel: anyone else?
>
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