On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 09:05:14PM +0300, Aaron wrote:
> No idea what the driver is.


  What do you mean by that? If you haven't built it from source then it
is a binary driver. If you can't get the source somewhere then it is a
binary only driver.


> Why is there a problem if its a binary only driver/daemon.


  I should have been more careful: there *might* be a problem, either
now or in the future. I believe the archive has an example for this.
>From memory, someone (Micha Feiglin?) had issues with the version he had
for the ncurses library and a binary UPS software.
  In general, there is a possibility that a binary dependencies are
broken, either now or in the future. Having the source is a step towards
a solution.
-- 
"If you have an apple and I have  an apple and we  exchange apples then
you and I will still each have  one apple. But  if you have an idea and I
have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw     (sent by  shaulk @ actcom . net . il)

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