Re: Yet another newbie

[bob kehs ksd org]

The problem with the RPMS are:
1. They are sorely out of date so no good bug testing can be done from
them.

2. half of the tar balls dont have working specs to make up to date rpms.

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Jesse D. Sightler wrote:

> 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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