Re: tlug: RH mixing rpms and source

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas O'Dowd <tom@example.com> writes:

    Thomas> in /usr/local but I was wondering if that was really what
    Thomas> I should do with X as it is a core package.

there's no such thing as a core package, just core programs and data.
It's a major deficiency of current package systems that they ignore
this.

The right thing to do is to learn to build packages.  It's not very
difficult; eg, for kernels under debian you basically replace `make
bzimage' with `make-kpgk --revision local+0 binary_image' (or
somethign like that, Ihaven't done this in a couple months :( ).

X is admittedly harder than others.  But not that much.

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