Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

Sid Boyce wrote:
> Ken Schneider wrote:
> > Wouldn't the options be contained in the spec file from the src rpm?
> Yes, you can get a source RPM, "alien -t xxx.src.rpm" which will break 
> out the spec file separately or have it included in the xxx.tgz file.
Or do it the easy way, and use mc and copy the spec file (or just view 
it if that is all that's needed).  BTW, I think you will find most of 
the options you seek in /etc/opt/kde3/common_options.

Since SuSE has been traditionally a KDE based distro, and their 
integration of KDE is one of their strong points, even though I have 
rebuilt and tweaked some src.rpms, I wonder why someone would want to 
have a SuSE distro and build such fundamental softwares from source as 
KDE instead of using the supplied supplementary binaries already built 
by SuSE.  Linux IS all about choice though, so to each their own. ;-)   
Can't believe it would help the rpm database situation at all either, 
but I guess we each choose our own challenges.
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Joe Morris
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