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but it only explains why someone might want to move a little quicker and compile a new one themselves.
I do understand that point, having done so a lot before I joined SUSE ( I just don't have that time anymore). And had a tool like checkinstall existed when I started using linux back in 95, I guess I would have used it.
Somehow people always think that complex tasks should be made easy ....
Uh...isn't this what computers are for???
To a point, yes. But I have a number of things in mind where the computer causes more problems than it solves. And as I wrote in an earlier mail, what I forgot to add that there is a limit as to how easy it should be made.
I absolutely never discourage using the easy way because "No pain, no gain" is a great motto in the gym, but it sucks when you're trying to get your work done.
I doubt that you really *need* the newer version of a given package to get your work done. I guess many of those wanting to update are version junkies like I myself once was. In the years at SUSE, where I work with Linux all day, I have had only a very few cases where I definitely needed a newer version of a given package because of additional features the newer package offered. Philipp