Re: Yet another newbie

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

Zach Frey wrote:

> 
> This is an incredibly short-sighted attitude.
> 
> Lack of stable RPMs is a significant deterrent to GNOME installation.
> I don't think it's reasonable to expect everyone who wants fairly
> up-to-date GNOME releases to do an anon CVS checkout.
> 
> I have yet to get a stable and working GNOME installation, either
> through CVS or through attempts to grab fairly recent tarballs.  Now,
> not to brag on myself, but I'm a moderately competent and experienced
> software developer, new to Linux and this "gooey" stuff, but with some
> years of Unix experience.  So I suspect I'm not the only one with
> these problems.
> 
> I'd be happy to be turning in quality bug reports, and even some
> patches, but I need to get something up and running first.  Stable
> RPMs would help.

Then please turn in comprehensive, and useful reports on EXACTLY what
the problems with the RPMs are.  Simply saying "there are some" isn't
enough.:)  Seriously, it works fine here.

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