[ale] Stress, via RH8 and confusion

[Jim Philips]

On Friday 21 March 2003 04:28 pm, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Jim Philips wrote:
> > On Friday 21 March 2003 03:01 pm, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> > > What are the "I wants"?
> > >   I want to look at Gnome2.2(?) natively
> > >   I want to look at the latest KDE natively
> >
> > Remove the rpm's and build them both from source. I don't know about
> > Gnome, but KDE is much improved by this. The people at RedHat simply
> > don't fully appreciate how KDE works, so they munged it when they created
> > BlueCurve. The first improvement you will see in KDE is a much more
> > logical menu structure. You will also find it easier to add enhancements
> > to KDE, because the RedHat directory structure simply doesn't work for
> > building most KDE programs. I don't think RedHat mangles Gnome as badly
> > as it did KDE, because RedHat has always worked hand in glove with the
> > Gnome developers.
>
> Recreating the rpm's along the way so acceptable changes can be rolled out
> to the other machines on the network. Hence the Gentoo aspect.

I use checkinstall, which will create rpm's from anything you built from 
source. That lets me completely remove it and reinstall it with rpm. It's a 
nice tool. It does deb packages too.
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