For the last few days I have been trying to get a jabberd server working with MSN transport. It didn't work but some help info I read suggested that there were problems with Curl older than a certain version. I saw that SuSE 9 was older so I tried to update. I didn't see any updates on the SuSE site so I went to the source and downloaded. Since there were very little instructions provided, I built with the standard ./configure make make install The problem is that I didn't know where it got installed and when I ran curl-config --version I saw it was the old one. With a little research I found where it was installed and were was the SuSE version. Finally on the curl website I found more info and was able to ./configure correctly. While doing this last night an idea came to me. SuSE has many packages and some are not installed in the default locations that you would get if you just used ./configure. Why not provide a database of the packages and the build/install options such as ./configure --prefix=/SuSE/path/to/install? Wouldn't this make it so much easier to find were packages are and make it easier to upgrade them? It could either be on the SuSE web site or perhaps even within YaST? What is your opinion? Is this something I could submit to SuSE feedback or is it silly? Damon Register