On Monday 23 April 2001 22:56, you wrote:
This is a bad model to compare with - but let's run with it.
OK
I used to install nearly everything by hand, but the increasing reliance of the package manager which is being encougaged by the distros have created cirumstances where many autoconf files and software dependencies can not any longer be reasonably worked out. As a result, the distro's are disfunctional without the package managers. The recent Kernel upgrade is a prime example. So much of the core of the system's init and module dependencies changed, that not only did nearly everything need to be
rebuilt, but even after using the RPM's from a FRESH 7.1 disk (since the on
Odd, I took the rpm's directly from the site for 2.4.2, and the modutils and did a one time install. Worked right out of the chute. No muss, no fuss. Granted, this was a pretty stock system, and I don't do rebuilds unless absolutely necessary.
line ones didn't work), and after an initial failure from the CD, once finally things were massaged to work, all my origianl setting were LOST, espeically Firewall, Routing, HOSTING and X (my voodoo3 3d stopped working again).
So the distros are say - OK we will for now on drive - YOU - (slap) - take you r hands off the wheel.
Now it is asked - should we expect you to put the engine in as well???
Well - what the heck is the RPM then anyway!!
BTW - as for the question, if the engine originally provided can be remotely started and then drive the car across country, while charging my plastic for the gas... damn straight I expect your RPM to slip that new 2.4 engine right in place....
I don't think so.. deciding to put a new engine in a brand new car will usually void the warranty. Unless the first one was broken. And in this case, the engine furnished isn't broken. Works fine.
Or at least fix the damn system so that it can work with an off the shelf job.
It does. I've done it on three totally different machines. Both off CD and DVD. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 7.1, Kernel 2.4.2 KDE2.1.1 For a great linux portal try http://www.freezer-burn.org