Re: Yet another newbie

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

> From: bob@kehs.ksd.org
> 
> my $.02
> i dont care so much that gnome team dosn't produce RPMS. my largest amount
> of time wasted is dealing with the tar.gz's that have bad specs or no
> specs. It is a simple matter do make rpms with correct specs. Who ever
> produces the tars needs to check that they have good specs. I would be
> happy to donate my free cpu time building rpms for every one. I just dont
> have time to build specs for everything.
> 
> As to rpms, GNOME is on this planet to make X more useable. RPMS do the
> same. Therefore, RPMS, or the ability to make rpms from tarballs, should
> be available. If gnome is to be widely used it needs to be easy to
> install.


Geez, give the developers a break - it's still in beta.  I'm certain
once 1.0 comes out someone will spend the time to put together RPMS
that work, but with new releases coming out weekly, other things are
more important - like fixing bugs!

Dave