[lug] February 14th talk?

[James Alan Brown]

Thoughts from the UK


First: if my 6 lottery numbers come up tonight 
I will fly over and meet you nice helpful guys. 

Maybe you can post up a outline/part of the 
forthcoming discussion for us non USA Lugs? 

Regarding the RPM's  a good point to talk 
around are the included "dif files" as this 
is the bad part with RPM's. Example:  SuSE  
will use a standard KDE2 tar source and 
totally rewrite in alternative functions, 
libraries and alter the standard make files. 

That, in it self, is not a problem if you 
use all of their RPM's and don't wish to 
write or develop Programs.

It is not until you download the real tar.bz2 
source files, because you wish to work on KDE2 
development, that you find out what a total 
disaster that idea was.  

Hours of "total nightmare" trying to undo this 
jumbled dependency mess. I certainly found the 
very same problem with Red Hat RPM's too.

This brings me back to the reason for wanting to 
create an easy bootable CD Linux base install 
(Non RMP) but with compiler ready to work on 
source tar files.

Regards,
James 

City of Bristol UK 
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To tar is human unless you work on the roads!