Hi, On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Greg Thomas wrote:
You're just opening a huge can of worms. A few extra pages are not going to give the subject enough attention and no distro can possibly cover everything in their manual anyway. A few pages here, a few pages there, and soon the only thing the folks at SuSE or any other distribution are doing is writing the manual.
Well, there will be a special "SuSE package HOWTO", describing how to properly create packages for SuSE Linux. This will also be a good reference for compiling packages. However, this is still in a very premature state and will unfortunately take some more time before we will release it.
All that I expect from a distro is that I can install the software that comes with the distro and my system will run. Once I start downloading source or binaries from other places I am not going to bother the distro folks. And that goes for any distro.
Agreed, at least for the binary part. In most cases, problems when compiling sources arise from missing libraries. But in general I never had a serious problem compiling programs on SuSE Linux. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/