On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 04:06:09PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Ioa Petra wrote:
>
> > The reason I would ask for such an except is because 1.0.4, the current
> > potato stable is so -drastically- out of date. Seeing as how Gimp is one
> > of the major apps in the Linux community it seems it would be good to
> > make an exception in its case.
Debian is a friend you can count on, but forget about it being up to date!
Actually I created a separated directory, called "new", where I install from
source updated software and libraries ("./configure --prefix=/usr/new", "make",
"make install"), namely lyx and gimp, becouse the versions provided by slink
are really obsolete. That's why I won't update to Potato, as I risk a big mess:
sooner or later I'll have everything made up from source.
The problem with Debian is that you can't install Netscape except by means of
running a package called "netscape4". It would be great to know how to get the
rid of that limitation.
Someday a kind programmer will write some code to manage a distro made entirely
from source and help us to live without RPMs, LSMs or DEBs, i.e. flying out of
the cage :)))
Mauro
