🚀 go-pugleaf

On 12 Mar 1997 13:48:02 -0000, plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert)
wrote:

>compiling the source shouldn't be too much of a problem, and it always
>seems strange when people say 'I want to run unix' but then don't want
>to get their hands dirty..  compiling programs is IMHO a part of
>administering a unix system, you get to tweak things and actually see
>how things fit together, which makes it easier for you to fix if they
>go wrong.  I rarely need to look at the source, much less understand
>it!
>
>iain

Hmm.. If you read the message I said that I am no programmer not that
I cannot compile sources. If there is an easier way to install
something I will take it, if not I use the sources, precisely because
I want to run Unix, not spend all my time with makefiles. 
Redhat supply rpm packages for the same reason that Sun supply pkgadd
format distributions, to speed up installation and support. If I want
to add GCC to my Ultra2 in work I use a pkgadd FSF distribution, maybe
I'm just lazy or maybe I have better things to do with my time. As for
getting your hands dirty, there are many ways of doing that without
compiling.

"Each to their own."


Peter Hawkins.

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