Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Cedric Marcone <marcone mdeo fr>]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:16, Steve Grimaud wrote:
> I wonder why I should have to "understand how the compiler 
> and linker work" in order to install a program.

Because compiling a program is not installing a program.
 
> If Linux and these install and configuration packages are so 
> powereful, the how in the world can a program not find files that I can 
> find with a minimal comprehension of linux commands?

Because a computer is not a brain

> The widespread popularity of rpms testifies to the facts that 1) 
> building from source is NOT a trivial task, and 2) someone can figure 
> out how to do it when they build the rpm.

Trivial is context sensitive. Something which is trivial for a daily
hacker, might not be trivial for my mom...

- Things are certainly not perfect, but as previouly said build systems
like garnome, are definitly an improvement !
- Be kind and gentle. If you want to improve things make a bug report,
or send patches.

But please, stop this thread and let valuable hackers like Sven and Owen
work on bugfixing and improving the toolkit / desktop YOU use.

Those guys are working for you, never forget it.
You should be thanking them instead of whining.
--
Cédric