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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: A couple of kde-related problems
From:       Jeremy Blosser <jblosser () firinn ! org>
Date:       1999-07-03 18:41:36
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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.

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Jeremy Blosser   |   jblosser@firinn.org   |   http://jblosser.firinn.org/
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