On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:19:52AM -0400, Muhammad Akhtar wrote: > Coming from a Slackware (which i haven't left behind by the way...), > i am used to compiling from source and prefer that cos you can > assign your own flags to explicitly include or exclude things and > build your package to suit your needs that perhaps an rpm wouldn't > do. Am i right?
This is what src.rpms are for. Most of which do ./configure, make, make install (more or less), wrapped with all the other rpm stuff (ie package database, etc). -- Hal Burgiss
