[wplug] Mandrake 8.0

[T Quine]

The sad fact of life is that package-based distributions aren't particularly 
friendly toward installs by source.  If you want to install something (say, 
XFree) and you want other packages to know that you have it installed, you 
have to use the package system, either installing a binary package, or 
building your own package that inserts the correct records into the package 
management system.  You have to be careful then even, because if you use 
some non-standard version, you can cause all sorts of havoc.  I suggest 
installing stuff in /usr/local, and/or give up on package dependencies.

I think that package-based distros are mainly for people who *don't* build 
from source, and also for quick and easy custom system installs.

-quine-


>From: David G Matthews <dgm4+ at pitt.edu>
>Ok, another stupid question about Mandrake 8.0:
>I had heard that previous versions of Mandrake were easy to break by
>compiling a lot of stuff from source.  (Dependency database?)  Has this
>been solved by 8.0?  I'm curious about Mandrake but can't use it if it
>doesn't like non-rpm software, because a lot of the stuff I use is only
>availabe in source.
>  -dgm

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