--D9sZ58tf58331Q5M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii dep [dep@westnet.com] wrote: > out of curiousity -- when you compile it, why don't you just do "make > install," install the thing, and have done with it? do you intend to > distribute your rpms? if not, why are you bothering to make them? > (you surely know that you can use the "--prefix=/usr" configure > option to adopt red hat's (goofy, imho) default location for kde. There's a lot more to RPM than just a handy distribution method. If distribution was all anyone cared about, .tar.gz would work fine. RPM is about keeping track of what you install and what depends on what and what file belongs to which package, etc. As for the Red Hat comment, please be careful to be honest. As has been mentioned here before, this is primarily an issue with the FSSTND, not Red Hat. Of course Red Hat could choose to ignore the [generally excepted as a good standard] FSSTND -- and then they'd get bashed for not complying with standards. -- Jeremy Blosser | jblosser@firinn.org | http://jblosser.firinn.org/ -----------------+-------------------------+------------------------------ "Would you fight to the death, for that which you love? In a cause surely hopeless ...for that which you love?" -- D. McKiernan, _Dragondoom_ --D9sZ58tf58331Q5M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 MessageID: SjOO/COqmRo5gdaOTBZ1GiD8YEneK+jK iQCVAwUBN35ZXHTF3omYZFUZAQFRqAP9EeMQjjuOCAXrOQjZb7hbh+p2dF3/NDu6 H4S85f0zYn/mC3+7q+tqaxJVxLaQMvo6+RAgqTdoa4MQnA56fZKwUZv/5KG4wBj/ Byl6LCF9RDgIgfsegoLwI1JDtUg5Erj2qDSCLn4Uc8l7sZVJ9yxeQAY5SdAq4hYF VO6DS7zM3/U= =TrUH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --D9sZ58tf58331Q5M-- -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral