RE: tlug: X resolution / color depth

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Marcus Metzler wrote:

>  > >  > RPM.  Not holding my breath on Slackware :-)
>  > > What`s so good about RPM. I hate it.
>  > 
>  > That's like saying that you hate cars and then taking a horse and buggy on
>  > the freeway (happens in PA sometimes...)
> Yeah, sure. I see that RPMs are good for making Linux more attractive for
> non-hacker users, I just like to do most of the installation myself, so
> that I know what`s going on. I am also willing to learn how to make RPMs
> to make it easier for people to install my programs. I just don`t like to
> use them myself.
> 

hehe, true.  I usually don't install other peoples' binary RPMs unless I
at least do an 'rpm -qlp' on it to see what it's going to install
beforehand.  I usually just download the .src.rpm, build new binary RPMs
on my machine (and tack a TL onto the incremented version number), and
then install that.  The nice thing is, when Ido that, since I run TL
myself, if I like the program, voila I already have an .i386.rpm that I
can drop into the next TL version or put on the pkgupdate site. :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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