Re: Build system

[Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn joshuaeichorn com>]

If you want new gnome apps in redhat 9 checkout: 
http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/repository.html
You don't have to write spec files someone has done it for you :-)
-josh

Marcin Antczak wrote:

> W liście z czw, 04-09-2003, godz. 20:39, Jeff Waugh pisze: 
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>
> > <quote who="Marcin Antczak">
> >
> >    
> >
> > > You are assuming that every possible application for gtk/gnome is
> > > available in binary form for my distribution what in my opinion is not
> > > true.
> > >
> > > I use RH 9 which is (I think) most popular linux distribution, but I still
> > > have to build/compile/whatever a lot of applications.
> > >      
> > Well, to be honest, that is a problem with your distribution. My distro does
> > not keep me wanting for software. :-)
> >    
>
> What distro? :-) (Mandrake?)
>
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> > > And more - what if I want to have application with different options
> > > than it is by default?
> > >      
> > Then the application is broken.
> >    
>
> Well, you propably didn't understand me.
>
> Little example (not from Gnome world but...) PHP in RH binaries are
> compiled without XML support in PHP so I have to rebuild packages (and
> add some dependent packages like sablotron etc)....
>
>