On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, you wrote:
my view: rpms provide better management. you can install and uninstall with ease. and i think most rpms come with all/most parameters compiled in.
My preference is almost always source. I don't however like the mess of just installing whatever all into /usr/local. What i've been using is stow (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow), which allows me to install each package i compile into a structure like /usr/local/stow/packagename, and then it sym links it into the /usr/local tree, meaning that everything works the same, but i can now uninstall or temp uninstall on the fly, i can find which package a file came from or which files a package came with, and i can move stuff off to other file systems if i get tight on space. Very sweet!
true. as someone has mentioned eralier, there's also src rpm; which totally slipped my mind (maybe not enought food that day). so, you get both management and binary for *your* machine. all in all, either rpms or tar ball - both depends on our preference. ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.kedai.com.my/kk Am I Evil?