Re: RPMs and src

["Billie H. Cleek" <cleek csc smsu edu>]

I just don't like using RPMs. I don't really have a good reason for it, I
just like to do things my way....Anyway, right after I sent this message I
realized what a stupid question I was asking. Ugh. Sorry bout that.

However, I am now running gnome-panel 1.0.55, and it doesn't add any
applets. Anytime I attempt to add an applet it just creates what appears
to be the spacing between the buttons/applets, but doesn't actually add
anything functional (applet) to the panel. What's up?

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Paul Warren wrote:

> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Billie H. Cleek wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the process of changing all my RPM packages to src distros.
> 
> Why?  Presumably to staying on the lightly blooded edge (as opposed to
> bleeding edge of CVS).  I would recommend using 
> 	
> 	rpm -ta tarball.tar.gz 
> 
> Works on most Gnome tarballs.  This has the advantage of keeping your RPM
> database up-to-date, making switching back to RPMs at some later point
> trivial.  If you're actually doing development, you'll probably want to be
> using CVS instead.
> 
> > However, I'm unsure of what tarballs correspond to the gnome-core-devel
> > and contol-center-devel packages. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> gnome-core and control-center.  -devel packages are only applicable in the
> world of binary packages where the header files are not necessarily
> included with the package.
> 
> Paul
>