Re: gEDA-user: 20050329 install problem

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 21:33, Marvin Dickens wrote:
>On Wednesday 06 April 2005 21:37, Daniel Nilsson wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:27:15PM -0400, Marvin Dickens wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 18:53, Daniel Nilsson wrote:
>> > > The individual pieces of software (pkg-config, autoconf etc)
>> > > all have very detailed documentation but that typically not
>> > > what the end user needs to know in order to compile from
>> > > source. More of a hands on guide that ties it all together
>> > > would probably help a lot to get people that wants to deal
>> > > with source packages to get over the steep learning curve a
>> > > little faster.
>> > >
>> > > Surely someone must have written one of these guides ?
>> >
>> > The first time I installed gEDA (Two years ago...?...) I had a
>> > couple of problems with dependencies. The majority were related
>> > to SuSE distro centric issues with required gEDA dependencies.
>> > So, I fell back on what I knew would work: Install all
>> > dependencies and Geda from source. I've been installing gEDA
>> > from source ever since. My complaints regarding gEDA
>> > dependencies are not related to dependency list as specified by
>> > gEDA, but to the one thing every distro is guilty of:
>> > Bastardizing libraries to fit market strategy de jour and/or
>> > political statements.  I say shame on the distro's (Commerical
>> > and non-commerical alike).
>>
>> Marvin,
>>
>> This may sounds ignorant, but I don't know what you are referring
>> to here. I used SuSE many years ago myself, but have settled on
>> Debian so maybe I have different experience they you do...
>>
>> How is market strategy related to bastardizing libraries ? I'm not
>> saying it's not related, I just don't understand how it's
>> related...
>
>There are lots of examples. The one that most people can relate to
>is this what both RedHat and SuSE did with CDRecord. Here is the
>quote from the author of CDRecord's website:
>
>Both RedHat and SuSE publish bastardized and defective variants of
> cdrtools in their distributions.  If you have problems on RedHat or
> SuSE systems, first fetch a recent original cdrtools source,
> compile it yourself  and run the original instead of broken
> software that illegally claims to be cdrecord.
>
>The url for the above is:
>
>http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html
>
>Also, if you google "cd dvd  burning problems linux" you
>get literally thousand of hits related to the alteration.
>
>Regards
>
>Marvin

Thats another of the programs I make from tarballs.  Using k3b also, 
all I can say is that it Just Works(TM).  Just Works great that is.

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