Re: Why RPMs?

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> Stuff does compile out of CVS.  You just need to have every package in
> place to compile gnome properly.  Look in the .spec files in each
> package, they list the steps required to compile/install gnome.

Why did they put the spec info in a . file (i.e. invisible to
normal browsing)?  I've been looking all over for that very info,
unaware that it was just a 'ls -a' away.  Is that normal?

John