Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:41, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
> Darn RPM's are also broken.  In fact, the source RPMs are often broken.

Which RPMS?  RPMS typically do exactly what they advertize:  They
install and work without problem on the platform they were intended to
run.  Of course you'll have problems taking a rh9 rpm to other distros
and versions.  But they offer a starting point.  I have never had a
problem with GTK2 on rh9.  And I have rebuilt the RPM from src.rpm
(applying that silly menu shadow patch) and they worked fine.

> 
> You should be able to install from source when the source is reasonably designed.
> 

And you can, easily, when you reasonably think a little bit about what
you're doing and what the rules for making it work are and know a bit
about the system.  Again.  We're not talking about building an app
here.  We're talking about a system-level library (from the user's point
of view).  This is the first and foremost the job of the distro
maintainer, not the user.

> Ruben
> 
> > 
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Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>