Re: [linux-audio-user] MDK sound-RPMs troubles / Sound in Slackware?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] MDK sound-RPMs troubles / Sound in Slackware?
From: Austin (aacton_AT_yorku.ca)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 22:04:00 EEST

On 2003.04.01 12:19 Speaker to Vegetables wrote:
> I find it much easier and safer to install
> from source tarballs than to install a "foreign" RPM.

I thought that's what I was implying. :-)

> Perhaps the Linux Standard Base will change this,
> eventually.

Pfft. I doubt it.
Austin

> On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:06 am, Austin wrote:
> > That is not accurate.
> > Mandrake and RedHat do use the same RPM system. You can install
> > either RPM on either system. The fact is, due to dynamically linked
> > libraries, you're best to use RPMs built on the distro you're using. 

-- 
                         Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
              Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
            Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
              MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
                      homepage: www.groundstate.ca

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