Re: mc in fedora 10

[MK <halfcountplus intergate com>]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:18:21 +0100
"Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com> wrote:

> > Vis. "waste days on recompiling packages from older source archives"
> >  -- no, I just find the homepage, download the source tarball, and
> >  compile it according to  my preferences.  I do not have a hard time
> >  determining and accounting  for prereqs.  
>
> I guess you have never compiled anything requiring more than 3 libraries
> then. Try a static build of VLC (or, say, qtiplot, anyone?) for starters
> and than report back.

No, I've done the "linux from scratch" thing, actually, which means building a new glibc, 
bootstrap-rebuilding gcc, etc, then every other single library after that.  Not that I do that often (or want 
to), but it's been done and I honestly almost prefer building from source; on my current install X is from 
the distro but the entire gtk chain is source built, partially because I have a public project involving gtk 
so it's curiousity.  I rebuild the kernel all the time, my system is always totally stable, I have no problem 
"forcing" in higher level packages on top of that.

So yeah, I kind of sneer at a lot of the install systems that have developed in the past decade (those years 
I spent travelling must have been big ones in linux development!) altho this sneer is completely ridiculous 
and unjustified.  I am coming to appreciate the ease and dynamism of it all.

Certainly, mc belongs near the center of the linux universe.  But I'm still sure that 2 DVD fedora set was 
designed by them to fit their graphical install system, which is a little crass but I imagine does a fine job 
of quickly and easily installing some generic style systems (just mc was not on any of them ;P).  RHEL I 
would point out is more specifically a commercial server product and I would hope any server I have to 
connect to has mc available, so good for them.

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MK <halfcountplus intergate com>
C/perl & web programmer