RE: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS [mailto:ruben mrbrklyn com] 
> > If your disribution makes it difficult to install 
> something, then it's 
> > a problem with the distribution.
> 
> This is a very poor excuse and neede not be true.  Nearly 
> every important package on my system is installed with 
> autoconf and make, without trouble, from sendmail, bind, 
> apache, Perl, X, etc etc etc.

You are unusual.

> GTK is only hard to compile and install by hand because the 
> developers have chosen to make it so.

Nobody decided to make anything difficult.

Murray Cumming
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