Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (71 mails)

[Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 12 July 2004 18:02, Glenn Hancock wrote:
> No, from the net would mean from the SUSE website.  And if I purchase
> it how do I know its going to work any better?  I thought you only had
> to purchase if you wanted SUSE support services with the product?  Why
> do they offer something if its not going to work?  Why would you
> install an OS that is 90% reliant on compiling software and then not
> include a compiler.

Linux is _not_ 90% reliant on compiling software all by yourself.
The personal edition is just that: A personal edition for people who want to 
_use_ Linux as a real alternative to whatever Redmod comes up with, for 
surfing the web without fear of virusses and dialers, for using an Office 
suite.

The SuSE web sites state clearly what is included and what is not. It's up to 
each individual user to chose what best fits his needs.


> My major issue here is more that I see things checked that would make
> me think it should be there and its not...

Try the manual way:

	rpm -q make

It should say something like

	make-3.80-184

If "rpm -q" would tell you something different than YaST2's package manager, 
this would indeed be a major bug - but we would definitely have heard of that 
by now, so I have my doubts about that. Please double-check that.


CU
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Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx>                Penguin by conviction.
YaST2 Development
SuSE Linux AG
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