Eric Van Buskirk wrote:
> It is good to have it installed, but I don't feel as good about it as I
> could.  Just as I don't like being spoon fed by Bill Gates, I don't like
> being spoonfed by rpm.  Hence I wish I knew why it would not work the
> old-fashioned way.

At the same time, RPMs are partly why Linux is as popular as it is
today.  There is a good cross-section of the Linux community that uses
Linux to actually get stuff done, and sitting around waiting for builds,
and/or trying to get builds to actually work is incredibly
non-productive.  I'd rather install an RPM or use apt-get than waste
time with source tarballs any day.  

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