[Xastir] New configure.ac script - RPM upgrades

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Sat Feb 15 17:06:42 EST 2003


On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:52:55PM -0700, KC7ZRU - Tate wrote:
> RPMs are convenient, easy and neat - when they work. When they don't,
> they're the devil's own spawn.

Time to upgrade away from an RPM-based distribution, then!

> Plus, binaries compiled on your own system are much more likely to be
> 'optimized' for your system. If you get into things and tweek a bit -
> even more so. Any one say kernel yet?

If you don't tweak the source the binaries won't be any different to
somebody else's. Just compiling it yourself doesn't tailor it for your
system.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>



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